Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense mucks, present participle mucking, past tense, past participle 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] More Synonyms of muck
2. uncountable noun
Muck is animal faeces.
[informal]
He could smell muck and clean fresh hay.
Synonyms: manure, crap [slang], dung, ordure More Synonyms of muck
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 muckon to paper.
Phrasal verbs:
See muck around
See muck in
See muck out
See muck up
muck in British English
(mʌk)
noun
1.
farmyard dung or decaying vegetable matter
2. Also called: muck soil
an organic soil rich in humus and used as a fertilizer
3.
dirt or filth
4.
earth, rock material, etc, removed during mining excavations
5. slang, mainly British
rubbish
6. Lord Muck, Lady Muck
7. make a muck of
verb(transitive)
8.
to spread manure upon (fields, gardens, etc)
9.
to soil or pollute
10. (often foll by out)
to clear muck from
Word origin
C13: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse myki dung, Norwegian myk
muck in American English
(mʌk)
noun
1.
moist manure
2.
black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer
3.
a.
mire; mud
b.
anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth
verb transitive
4.
to fertilize with muck
5. Informal
to dirty with or as with muck
often with up
6. Chiefly British, Slang
to make a mess of; bungle
often with up
7. Chiefly British
to clean (esp. a stable); remove muck from
usually used with out
Idioms:
muck about
Word origin
ME muk < or akin to ON myki, dung < IE base *meuk-, slippery, viscous > meek, L mucus
More idioms containing
muck
happy as a pig in muck
common as muck
Examples of 'muck' in a sentence
muck
It's about mucking in together.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Most people, we must remind ourselves, just muck along.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Which they then don't have time to read because they're too busy mucking about on the internet.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
There was no mucking around and no room for egos.
The Sun (2015)
We were just mucking around in her bedroom that day and we just did it.
The Sun (2010)
But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Your lungs have got a lot of muck to clear out.
The Sun (2010)
The work was classified as a restricted occupation and there was no mucking about then.
John Fisher Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing (2006)
This photo was just me mucking about.
The Sun (2016)
An ideal opportunity to bunk off and muck about?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It was the opinion of others she was not just mucking about.
The Sun (2016)
You should get the chance to feed and muck out the animal on your days but it may not be required.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
None of yer fancy foreign muck.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
When I moved in the ceilings were stained with nicotine and the carpets covered in dirt and muck.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Farmers like to complain that no one buys British any more and the delicious food that they produce is ignored in favour of foreign muck.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The zoo has performed the commercial feat of successfully charging members of the public to carry out such tasks as mucking out the animals' enclosures.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In my house the only time I saw one being used was my dad using one to clean the muck off his boots from work.