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muck Definition

muck (muk)

noun

  1. moist manure
  2. black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer
    1. mire; mud
    2. anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth

Etymology: ME muk < or akin to ON myki, dung < IE base *meuk-, slippery, viscous > meek, L mucus

transitive verb

  1. to fertilize with muck
  2. Informal to dirty with or as with muck: often with up
  3. Chiefly Brit., Slang to make a mess of; bungle: often with up
  4. Chiefly Brit. to clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from: usually used with out

muck Idioms

muck about

or muck around

Chiefly Brit., Slang to waste time; putter

muck Synonyms

muck

n.

refuse, dung, waste; see trash 1, 3.

muck Usage Examples

Object

  • everyone: There was a great sense of camaraderie within the group and everyone mucked in together with the various tasks.

Converse of object

  • spread: If it gets dry enough we will start spreading muck and plowing for the early crops.

Adjective modifier

  • own: Spread your own muck, eliminate removal costs and enhance your pastures!

Modifies a noun

  • spreader: Green hay being spread onto receptor field using muck spreader.
  • heap: You will be amazed at how much smaller your muck heap is!
  • beast: Kiania's baby muck beast raises up its muddy arms and emits a fierce little battle roar!
  • diving: Lion Island: The waters around Lion Island make for a good ' muck diving ' site.

Modifying Another Word

  • about: There was still a bit of bush around our suburb, where I could muck about.
  • no: There was no mucking about along the ' what salary are you looking for?
  • just: I got kicked out of school because I didn't want to learn nothing, so I just mucked about, you know.
  • all: Again, we all mucked in well, worked professionally and hard brilliant job.
  • really: Step cutting could really muck up the grading system!

Noun used with modifier

  • cow: This is normally topped up with ten of fifteen tons of cow muck per acre.
  • rabbit: No problems with vermin either, as I only have the rabbit muck in the two bags.
  • dog: Advertisement " We were second on the bill to dog muck!
  • horse: I put horse muck ( not rotted ) around the base in about November 05.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • up: Step cutting could really muck up the grading system!

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: We were promised the Rhythm & Sound guys wouldn't muck around with the recording too much.
  • out: I seem to spend the whole week mucking out & trying to dry rugs with riding only possible at weekends.
  • up: We'd muck up their world searching for oil, gold, or germs we could use for weapons.
muck Quotes

Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

What are you going to sing? All I can say isösing 'em muck! It's all they can understand!

—Melba, Dame Nellie real name Helen Mitchell

The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

—Roosevelt,Theodore

Browse dictionary entries near muck

  1. mucinogen
  2. mucin
  3. mucilaginous
  4. mucilage
  5. muciferous
  6. mucid
  7. mucic acid
  8. mucho
  9. muchness
  10. muchly
  1. muck-a-muck
  2. mucker
  3. muckle
  4. muckrake
  5. muckraker
  6. muckworm
  7. mucky
  8. muco-
  9. mucoid
  10. mucopolysaccharide