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▪ I. ˈmucking, vbl. n.
[f. muck v. + -ing1.]
†1. An application of dung or the like as manure; concr. what is applied as manure. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 569 The sowing of this Pulse in any ground, is as good as a mucking vnto it. 1611Florio, Letaminatura, any kind of mucking. c1707in Encycl. Brit. (1853) II. 262/1 A good stubble is the equalest mucking that is.
2. colloq.
a. pl. Rubbish, ‘mess’.
b. An act of ‘messing about’. Also mucking-about.
1898Kipling in Morn. Post 9 Nov. 5/2 She's only burning muckings like the rest of us. She's our ‘chummy ship’. 1904― Traffics & Discov. 68 His photographic muckings. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 539/2 Mucking-about,..an intimate fondling: low (mostly costers'). 1969Listener 27 Feb. 264/3 ‘Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence,’ said Auden in his poem on Oxford: perhaps he knew what he was doing when he omitted the phrase in his last mucking-about with the piece.
3. Also with out. The action of removing muck, esp. dung from a stable or waste material from a mine.
1641[see muck v. 1]. 1840How to buy a Horse viii. 160 This Augæan labor is termed ‘mucking out’. Ibid., In fact, such an operation as ‘mucking out’ should, in a well-regulated stable, be an impossibility, for there never should be any ‘muck’ to take away. 1918H. L. Carr in R. Peele Mining Engineers' Handbk. vii. 260 Mucking, or loading broken rock into hoisting conveyance, occupies 50% of shaft-sinking time. 1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxi. 218 The men, who had been displaced by new mucking machines (mucking is cleaning out the tunnel after the blast), were to be transferred. 1935Mining Mag. LII. 55/2 Two buckets were used in mucking, one of which was being filled while the other was being hoisted. 1957Times 2 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. vi/3 In a modern fattening house we have also to make provision for minimum labour requirements in feeding, mucking out and weighing. 1960New Scientist 7 Jan. 38/1 ‘Mucking out’, as the removal of the rock fragments is termed, is thus simplified and speeded up. 1961Encycl. Brit XV. 543/2 The method of mucking is reflected in the choice and design of the haulage system. 1973K. Giles File on Death v. 147 Old Joe keeps the rain channel free on the duck⁓pond side... Old Joe does a thorough job at mucking-out.
▪ II. ˈmucking, ppl. a.
[f. muck v. + -ing2.]
Euphemistically (chiefly in written work) = fucking ppl. a. Cf. muck v. 6. Also as quasi-adv.
1929R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. x. 375 What the muckin' hell are you doing, down there? 1933H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup vi. 237 Don't be a mucking fool! Ibid. 241 Do you think we want to sit round telling ghost stories in this mucking hole? 1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. xiii. 277 And if I ever hit you I'll break your mucking jaw. 1942Penguin New Writing XV. 19 I'll miss the silly mucker... Poor old Bob. Went down with his mucking duffle. 1946D. Hamson We fell among Greeks v. 61 By Christ, it's that mucking dog. 1974R. Adams Shardik xxxvi. 301 You'd better lend him a hand... We'll be 'alf the mucking night else. Ibid. xlv. 363 The first man peered in his turn. ‘He mucking is, too,’ he said. ‘Aren't you?’ |