- muck⇄expr. muck about (or around), (Slang.) to waste time; putter; go about aimlessly.
Ex. Some players and spectators are fed up with the way they keep mucking about with the rules of the game (Manchester Guardian Weekly). - muck⇄expr. muck in, (British Slang.) to mingle; associate (with); share quarters (with).
Ex. hurried back and forth among the confusion like a general mucking in with his troops on the eve of battle (Manchester Guardian). - muck⇄expr. muck out,
a. to clean out (as a stable, mine, or tunnel).
Ex. After a couple of years getting up at dawn to work horses and muck out stables ... (Time).
b. (British.) to clean up (anything).
Ex. ... spoke of the trouble sh - muck⇄expr. muck up, (Slang.) to spoil; foul up; make a mess of.
Ex. We mucked up two hundred quids' worth ... before getting it right, had to burn the lot (Punch). - muck⇄muck, noun, verb.
- muck⇄noun 1. dirt; filth; dirty slush.
Ex. The basement was covered with muck and slime after the flood.
2. anything filthy, dirty, or disgusting.
3. moist farmyard manure, used as a fertilizer; dung.
4. (U.S.)
a. a heavy, mo - muck⇄v.t. 1. to soil or make dirty.
Ex. You can't touch pitch and not be mucked, lad (Robert Louis Stevenson).
2. to put muck on.