| 单词 | muck |
| 释义 | muck (mʌk ) Word forms: mucks , mucking , mucked 1. uncountable noun Muck is dirt or some other unpleasant substance. [informal] This congealed muck was interfering with the filter. Synonyms: dirt, mud, filth, crap [slang] 2. uncountable noun Muck is animal faeces. [informal] He could smell muck and clean fresh hay. Synonyms: manure, crap [slang], dung, ordure 3. uncountable noun If you refer to something as muck, you are emphasizing that you think it is of very bad quality. [informal, disapproval] I can't eat this muck. The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper. Phrasal verbs: muck around regional note: in BRIT, also use muck about 1. phrasal verb If you muck around or muck about, you behave in a childish or silly way, often so that you waste your time and fail to achieve anything. [mainly British, informal] We do not want people of his age mucking around risking people's lives. [VERB PARTICLE] He'd spent his boyhood summers mucking about in boats. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] The last I saw of him though he was mucking about with the nurses and really enjoying himself. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] 2. phrasal verb If you muck around with or muck about with something, you alter it, often making it worse than it was. [mainly British, informal] The president's wife doesn't muck around with policy or sit in on Cabinet meetings. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 3. phrasal verb If you muck someone around or muck them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them or by continually changing plans which affect them. [mainly British, informal] He does not tolerate anyone who mucks him about. [VERB noun PARTICLE] muck in phrasal verb If someone mucks in, they join in with an activity or help other people with a job and do not consider themselves to be too important to do it. [mainly British, informal] Course residents are expected to muck in and be prepared to share rooms. [VERB PARTICLE] She mucked in with the chores and did her own washing and ironing. [VERB PARTICLE + with] Ian was never afraid to take his coat off and muck in with everybody else. [VERB PARTICLE with noun] muck out phrasal verb If you muck out a stable or a farm animal's home, you clean out all the faeces and old hay. [British] Mike mucks out the cows before going to work. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Here's how to muck out. [VERB PARTICLE] muck up phrasal verb If you muck up or muck something up, you do something very badly so that you fail to achieve what you wanted to. [mainly British, informal] I mucked up at the 13th hole and told myself that this was getting stupid. [VERB PARTICLE] He really has mucked up his chances. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Quotations: Where there's muck, there's brass Idioms: happy as a pig in muck [British, informal] very happy From day one I adored it. I was as happy as a pig in muck. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers common as muck [British, offensive] lower-class Leary guessed correctly that his guests were as common as muck and planned the menu accordingly. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
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