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muck up
muck M0462100 (mŭk)n.1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.4. Something filthy or disgusting.5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.6. The pile of discarded cards, as in poker: threw his hand into the muck.v. mucked, muck·ing, mucks v.tr.1. To fertilize with manure or compost.2. To make dirty, especially with muck.3. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).4. To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.v.intr. To muck one's hand in a card game.Phrasal Verbs: muck about Chiefly British To spend time idly; putter. muck up Informal To bungle, damage, or ruin.
[Middle English muk, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse myki, dung.]
muck′i·ly adv.muck′y adj.muck up vb (adverb) 1. (tr) Brit and Austral to ruin or spoil; make a mess of2. (intr) Austral to misbehaveThesaurus| Verb | 1. |  muck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blowgo wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" | | 2. |  muck up - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"mud, muck, mirebegrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
mucknoun1. A viscous, usually offensively dirty substance:mire, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush.2. Foul or dirty matter:dirt, filth, grime.Slang: crud.verbTo soil with mud.Also used with up:bemire, mire, mud, muddy, slush.phrasal verb
muck upInformal. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.Informal: bollix up.Slang: blow, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu.Idiom: make a muck of.Translationsmuck up
muck upTo ruin or mess something up. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muck" and "up." Boy, you really mucked up this report, and I don't have time to fix it right now.See also: muck, upmuck something upto ruin something. I should never have trusted Jim with the repair work. He was bound to muck it up. I asked her to take over for me while I was gone, and she really mucked it up. She mucked up the whole deal.See also: muck, upmuck upBungle, damage, make a mess of, as in Don't let him write the review; he's sure to muck it up. This idiom alludes to the verb muck in the sense of "spread manure on." [Early 1900s] For a synonym, see foul up. See also: muck, upmuck upv. Slang 1. To make something dirty or contaminated, especially with mud, grime, or a similar substance: Don't step in that puddle; you'll muck up your shoes. The gears in the car's transmission were all mucked up.2. To make some liquid unclear or unusable by stirring up elements settled on the bottom: Unfortunately, all the dredging in the river has mucked up the water so much that we can't go swimming. The rains mucked the water up, making it difficult for scuba divers to see.3. To make something unusable by disrupting what should remain undisturbed: I tried to incorporate these ideas into my paper at the last minute, but all they did was to muck it up. The editor stopped the author from mucking up the book with needless revisions.See also: muck, upmuck something up tv. to mess something up; to ruin something. Try not to muck it up this time. See also: muck, something, upEncyclopediaSeemuckmuck up
Synonyms for muck upverb make a mess of, destroy or ruinSynonyms- bobble
- bodge
- bollix
- bollix up
- bollocks
- bollocks up
- botch
- botch up
- bumble
- bungle
- flub
- fluff
- foul up
- fuck up
- louse up
- mess up
- mishandle
- ball up
- spoil
- muff
- screw up
- fumble
- blow
Related Wordsverb soil with mud, muck, or mireSynonymsRelated Words- begrime
- bemire
- colly
- dirty
- grime
- soil
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