Definition of muck in English:

muck

noun mʌkmək

mass noun

1Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter.
污垢；垃圾；废物
I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen
我只擦掉挡风玻璃上的污垢。
Example sentencesExamples
- The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility.
- The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots.
- At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches.
- It was muck, sludge, and sewage every day of the campaign.
- I have lived like we did in the jungles, in dirt and filth and muck, unwashed and unkempt.
- Apart from the litter have you also noticed the amount of muck and dirt on the roads this winter?
- This was an isolated incident, but residents were angry about the amount of muck, dirt and stones coming off each site on the lorries' wheels.
- A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water.
- The floor was stone, but seemed to be hidden under a thin layer of muck, and debris from above.
- Not that there's much to see: what's at the bottom is not water, but muck and debris.
- ‘Surely there must be a better way than having people wade through muck and dirt to these sites,’ he said.
- He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse.
- We're under the river - you realize - covered by metal, cement, rock, dirt, silt, muck, and water.
- Then she screamed - the first scream of her adult life - as a slimy mixture of grease, muck and dirt poured out over her ankles.
- The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day.
- It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water.
- I finished the gutters, sprayed some water up there to clean out the muck, and then surveyed the entire leaf-in-yard situation.
- The smog monster Hedora is an interesting creation, being made entirely out of sludge and muck.
- He pointed out that an ordinary person leaving muck on a road would have to clean up the road afterwards.
- Wells provided the villagers with clean drinking water, rather than the chocolate-coloured muck I had been swimming in.
Synonyms
dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, sludge, scum, mire, mess, rubbish
informal crud, gunk, grunge, gloop, gook, goo, yuck
British informal gunge, grot
North American informal guck, glop
1. 1.1 Farmyard manure, widely used as fertilizer.
  堆肥；厩肥
  he was covered in cow muck and mud
  Example sentencesExamples
  A Kendal farmer was landed with a £300 fine this week after putting wildlife at risk by polluting a stream with watery cow muck.
  Under amendments to the Waste Management and Licensing Regulations, livery yards, stables and riding schools who add anything to their muck to compost it for fertiliser will be eligible for the fee.
  When the Victorians planted them the only problem was sheep muck and cow muck.
  ‘As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car,’ he said.
  A gentleman took his child on to the new play area and complained about the amount of dog muck.
  We have some wonderful buildings in Trowbridge and they are just covered in bird muck.
  It stinks of horse muck at the moment and the rubbish is going everywhere.
  On two occasions I have had a large amount of dog muck deposited on the pavement outside my house.
  When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds.
  He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter!
  Farmers poured milk onto muck heaps yesterday at the beginning of a three-day protest at low food prices.
  A Darwen mother is refusing to let her daughter join a school ‘walking bus’ because she says the pavements are covered in dog muck.
  They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine.
  Fly tipped garden rubbish is as much a stain on the countryside as dog muck and litter.
  One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields.
  I assume the ‘very’ brown boots refers to farmyard muck?
  Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders.
  Farmers could earn substantial guaranteed income by utilising spare farm buildings to feed pigs - and use the muck to reduce fertiliser costs and boost cereal yields.
  But with fewer livestock now being kept, the steaming muck and straw is worth £20 a ton and farmers want to keep what they have got for their own land.
  Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the Farlington Beck.
  Synonyms
  dung, manure, ordure, excrement, excreta, droppings, faeces, cowpats, guano, sewage
  North American informal cow chips, horse apples
  vulgar slang shit, crap
  rare feculence
2. 1.2informal Something regarded as distasteful, unpleasant, or of poor quality.
  why do you let her read this muck?
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike real junk food, this rhetorical muck comes with no warnings about its worthless contents.
  ‘A lot of breweries were producing muck,’ Hal said.
  This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks.
  The only problem was some bizarre muck - apparently pineapple and cucumber salsa - on the side of my plate, where it remained untroubled while the turbot disappeared at top speed.
  Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign.
  He seems to have a genuine hatred for and problem with the muck so many kids get raised on, and recognises that this may be the only hot meal they get that day.
  First we read the menu: there's nowt but foreign muck,
  My mammalian mind remains mired in the earthly muck of doubt.
  And his daughters certainly don't deserve this sort of muck, regardless of what you might think of his policies and what his policies have done to other people's families.

verb mʌkmək

[with object]British

1muck something outRemove manure and other dirt from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling.
〈主英〉清除马厩（或其他动物棚舍）中的粪（或脏物）
I was mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen
Example sentencesExamples
- In between looking after the horses, other duties included mucking out the stables.
- The empty stalls were full of straw, but at least they had been mucked out.
- When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies.
- I went back to her stall and started to muck it out.
- He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained.
- The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses.
- In return I had to help muck out and clean the tack.
- Could you feed, milk, take out to graze, and muck out my cow while I'm away?
- Straw bedding is fine as long as it is mucked out daily, removing all wet material and keeping the bedding as clean as possible at all times.
- The large shelter, which can accommodate about 50 horses, has been carefully mucked out.
- The other four muck out - clean out the stables - and do the administration.
- The stalls hadn't been mucked out for a long time.
- The pair had just finished mucking out the elephant enclosure, which housed five females and two young males, and were giving the animals their daily wash with a power hose at about 8.20 am.
- For my next assignment, I was instructed to get my hands dirty by mucking out some of the kennels at Foal Farm.
2dialect Spread manure on (land)
〈罕〉施厩肥于（田地）
half the farm is mucked every year
Example sentencesExamples
- Help muck the fields and move hay.
- With the horses we mucked the fields and then went out in the morning to feed everyone.

Phrases

as common as muck

informal Of low social status.
〈英，非正式〉粗俗；地位低下；卑贱
Example sentencesExamples
- She is posing as a lady but she is really as common as muck.
- You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met.
- He's as common as muck, and God help him if he has to perform state duties - he can't stand foreigners.
- Sean Connery comes from the East of Scotland, with a 'posh' kinda tone, but we are from the West side and sound as common as muck.
Synonyms
rabble, scum, refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash, vermin, the lowest of the low, in the underclass, the dregs of society, good-for-nothings, undesirables

make a muck of

informal Handle (something) incompetently.
〈英，非正式〉把…弄糟
the taxi driver made a muck of it and took me to the wrong place
Example sentencesExamples
- If Finnie makes a muck of it - as I'm sure he will - I wonder if Jack would look in my direction.
- I think the reason we need all this legislation is that previous legislation made a muck of it, so we have the amendment bill to make sure that the law does not continue as it is.
- ‘No, she's just made a muck of things, that's all.’
- Of course, if her side win today, Nilsmark will be remembered as the great master tactician, but if Europe slips to defeat, she could be accused of making a muck of her choices.
- I found letting my son look after his own money extremely hard as I was sure he would make a muck of it.
Synonyms
make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage

where there's muck there's brass

proverb Dirty or unpleasant activities are also lucrative.
〈谚〉要致富别怕脏
Example sentencesExamples
- Unbelievably, this mountain of narcotics had been found in bins, but then, as the saying goes - where there's muck there's brass.
- It used to be said that where there's muck there's brass, but here's an updated adage: where there's a publicly owned body there's money to be made.
- Oscar Brogden has proved that where there's muck there's brass by salvaging 1,000 bicycles from Manchester's bins.
- ‘You have to roll your sleeves up and say ‘where there's muck there's brass’.’
- The old phrase ‘where there's muck there's brass’ rings true for a pioneering Bradford firm after profits increased by more than a third.

Phrasal Verbs

muck about/around

Behave in a silly or aimless way.
we just muck around in training and have a laugh
我们在训练时只是胡闹一通，找找乐子罢了。
Example sentencesExamples
- I started mucking around and becoming slack with my work.
- I thought they were mucking around, but now it makes sense.
- We were mucking around as we drove back to our neck of the woods - playing tag through traffic, messing with other drivers - the kind of stuff we used to do all the time when we were 17 or 18.
- ‘It ranges from youngsters mucking around a causing a bit of discomfort to local residents, to really serious misconduct and loutish behaviour right through to serious criminal behaviour,’ he said.
- We were in detention together on more than one occasion, me and Andy, for mucking around in class and smoking and stuff (I used to tell my mum I was staying late after school for football practice).
- They reminded me of those ‘mixtures’ created by bored children on rainy days, mucking around in the kitchen with anything liquidy or easily blended.
- Set in 1942 in the Forest of Dean, it's about seven children mucking around on a summer's afternoon.
- He does all the serious stuff, which allows me to muck about.
- I didn't know what to expect, but they were laughing and mucking about.
- It's happened since the children have gone back to school, so it must be kids mucking around.
- Which is ace, as it's relaxing watching the foxes skulk around in the evening - and last summer, the fox cubs mucking about.
- I have so many very happy and fond memories of my aunt, who was also my Godmother, and the many hours I used to spend mucking around as a kid with my cousins at her house.
- There's editing and there's just mucking around.
- Mountain bikes are great for mucking around offroad.
- In a written statement, Ms Shepherd said: ‘There was a thud, and I thought he was mucking around.’
- Scientists, historians and the like need to muck around in libraries and laboratories to achieve their results, but concepts can be analysed in the armchair.
- ‘At first, nobody could believe this big boy when he first showed up,’ said McHarg, ‘and they couldn't believe the way he mucked around.
- He talks in class continually and encourages his friends to muck around.
- In 1975, he retired to the shores of Loch Fyne, where he indulged his love of renovating and mucking about in boats.
- He put on a blonde wig to imitate my hair, and started mucking around as if we were best mates.
- Plenty of people enjoy mucking about in boats, but just as many appreciate a power shower and a lie-down in a real bed afterwards.
- He was mucking around because, in an all-male boarding school, there weren't any other options.
- Everyone wrote about mucking around, getting into fights, playing football, except this one kid whose story was all about the hours he spent crying and missing his mum and dad.
- So without anymore mucking around, let the interview begin…
- I think he wasted at least a third of the allocated 90 minutes with his mucking around.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around

muck about/around with

Tinker with (something), typically so as to damage or spoil it.
have you been mucking about with the aerial?
Example sentencesExamples
- They realise that India is too important for the sponsors to muck around with.
- I think there are certain benchmark institutions and arrangements in our society that you don't muck around with, and children should be brought up ideally by a mother and a father who are married.
- He gets to muck around with all the latest PC hardware and has a hand in making some of the fastest gaming rigs going.
- In other cases, film-makers mucked around with the novels, mistakenly believing that one little tweak would make Greene more cinematic.
- Yep, I've been mucking around with the site's appearance again.
- In this exhibition, it's an installation which you're invited to muck around with: go there, add your own content to the magazine, move it all around and turn material over.
- We've already got new songs that we are mucking around with, so we've almost got a new album ready to go.
- They can't have foreigners coming over and mucking about with their democracy, it might end up with officials becoming responsible for their actions!
- When we arranged this test Marcos asked me to make allowances because I'd be testing the development prototype which was being constantly mucked about with.
- Very difficult to get ones hands on a version as it's been mucked about with quite a bit.
- Then David had a look, and after grumbling how people had been mucking about with it, he had it going as good as new.
- I generate the material, kind of leave it to them to muck around with, and go off and write some more.
- Didn't play golf this weekend, as I had a bit of a turn early Saturday morning due to mucking about with my medication dosages and had to cancel.
- As the outgoing controller of Radio Four could tell you, it's dangerous to muck around with BBC tradition.
- Youths should realise they are putting their lives and those of other people at risk when they muck around with what are without doubt dangerous items.
- Having a passport is a fundamental right of New Zealand citizenship and should not be mucked around with in that way.
- I just want something cool to muck about with in my spare time.
- Most people treasure their right to vote and get very upset if anyone tries to muck about with it.
- It didn't turn out as well as I expected, but I'll be mucking about with it over the break.
- They all got their start by mucking about with existing machines and trying to make them better.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around
interfere, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, play about, play around, tamper, meddle, tinker, monkey, monkey about, monkey around

muck someone about/around

Treat someone inconsiderately, typically by disrupting their plans.
〈英，非正式〉轻率对待（尤指打乱某人的行动或计划）
what the management has to learn is that we can't be mucked about
Example sentencesExamples
- I think that an apology would be nice, because they have mucked me around for long enough.
- Psychologists like to talk about ‘locus of control’ and ‘cognitive mapping’ - lofty terms for not letting other people muck you about, and developing a sense of place.
- Then someone did ring from Staples, apologised for mucking me around, all to do with a new warehouse, blah blah.
- I wouldn't let them muck me around like that.
- I told Matt what my thoughts were and I don't want to muck him about.
- I'm sure you realise that I am in no state to have anyone muck me around.
- Even though I should have been really annoyed with Tony for having mucked me about like that, I couldn't help but grin in wonder at the impish cunning which lurked beneath his angelic exterior.
- You don't want to kill him, but if he mucks you around, well, something's gonna happen to him.
- But I don't want to muck them around either and would like to know where I stand.
- Steve showed up in the afternoon; he was friendly, clearly knew a bit about cars and didn't muck me about.
- We understand that prisoners could have the right to sue if the Department of Corrections mucks them around.
- If they start mucking you around speak to their complaints department, get them to send you another form with a self-addressed envelope so they cannot say it's gone elsewhere.
- I didn't actually see the draw but my mum rang me and I thought she was mucking me about.
- It would add hours to his commuting time, ruin his wife's photography business and generally muck them about.
- The real issue going on at Casino Avenue Towers is my washing machine. It's mucking me about again, refusing to complete its cycles.
- She snapped: ‘You can't muck me around like this, Terry, I've made arrangements.’
- We are fed up with getting mucked around and even though we had other players ill with flu we just decided to go ahead.

muck in

Share tasks or accommodation without expecting a privileged position.
〈英，非正式〉（不计地位地）一起工作；同吃同住
she really enjoys mucking in with the lads
她的确喜欢和小伙子们一起干活。
Example sentencesExamples
- Telecom's technology was far more basic in the early days and a country manager was expected to muck in when lines went down.
- Raised in Anstruther, where her parents run a hotel, she was used to mucking in and helping with the waitressing, cooking and cleaning, as required.
- There is a good community feel about us, everybody mucks in and they just want me to succeed in the new club.
- I must stress at this point that our friends are pretty good at mucking in and we do enjoy seeing them.
- When they finally get home, they are, quite reasonably, expected to muck in with the shopping, cleaning and childcare.
- Beer, spare parts and tales of the day's adventures are enthusiastically shared while everybody mucks in with repairs.
- From sweeping the floors to reading bedtime stories, the show sees Melinda mucking in with all the daily tasks of the house.
- Happy to muck in with any number of undignified playgroup tasks, one dad has been quick to name his price.
- Angela says the response from parents has been overwhelming and many have become involved themselves, either musically or mucking in with stage management.
- It was good to see there is some community spirit left with everyone mucking in to lend a hand and do whatever they could.
- Everyone is expected to muck in with the camp chores: pitching tents, collecting firewood, cooking the meals and shopping in local markets.
- ‘Christmas Day is exactly the same as it is in anyone's home - it's a bit hectic and everyone mucks in,’ he said.
- Catches of fish were shared, friends mucked in to build neighbours' homes, sods were replaced after peat-cutting and even the soot-covered inner thatch was recycled as fertiliser.
- The middle of five children (four girls and a boy), she grew up in Yorkshire on a small cattle farm and spent her childhood outdoors, mucking in feeding the livestock, chasing them when they ran amok through neighbours' gardens.
- It is inherent in student life that different students will come and go at different times and that groups will vary in their habits so far as sharing expenses and generally mucking in are concerned…
- They are quite self-orientated usually, but after a week mucking in with their cousins, they help out more.
- Indeed, said Doreen, many guests were amazed to see her mucking in around the farmyard in a pair of overalls, but B&B fits in well with the farming business, with Doreen and her husband Peter working at both.
- The nurses are brilliant and because it's so small everyone just mucks in.
- It is like a family, and when the chips are down, everybody is there and just sort of mucks in, she says.
- He likes a beer and he socialises and he mucks in.
Synonyms
help out, help, assist, lend a hand, join in, pitch in, participate, play a part, contribute, do one's bit, chip in, cooperate, collaborate, put one's shoulder to the wheel

muck up

Behave badly; mess around.
boys are more likely to muck up at what they see as poor teaching
Example sentencesExamples
- With the boss away, he steps up to umpire the hour when the kids muck up for the cameras.
- They can muck up, and make fun, and even make your life hard.
- He spent most of his time shouting at me because I was always mucking up and answering back.
- If you muck up again it becomes a criminal charge.
- If you muck up, you're automatically eligible for three months jail.
- There are many things that can distract a driver, and kids and pets mucking up in the backseat is a classic.
- Even though he mucks up all the time, he gets away with it because the teachers think of him as some sort of eccentric genius.
- There've been numerous other similar incidents this year of footballers mucking up in public.
- They fear you might use the certainty of a weekly wage to start mucking up again.
- What does a court do where one of the parents deliberately mucks up?

muck something up

Do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something.
she had mucked up her first few weeks at college
她进大学后头几个星期事情一团糟。
Example sentencesExamples
- It made her realise that what's important in a recording is to show your creative side ‘because you do have a second chance if you muck something up.’
- Knowing them, I have a feeling they'll manage to muck it up somehow.
- You wouldn't want someone to come in just about when we're almost finished and muck it up.
- But no, they insist on mucking it up by deciding for themselves.
- Being more than friends just totally mucks things up.
- When I was a kid, of course, I drew in them, ripped pages and covers, and generally mucked them up, but by the time I was in university I kept all my books in perfect shape.
- Maybe it's the girls who have mucked things up in this case.
- If I do I'd better not muck it up or I won't get another chance.
- It is one thing to have the US government mucking things up overseas.
- But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence?
- Well, the New Zealand corporates are trying at least, but they do seem to muck things up when it comes to helping out local acts.
- ‘I'll tell you what happened before Agent Miller mucks the whole story up,’ Loki said with a cold glance at Miller.
- If anything, they've gotten a bit crafty with the songwriting, without mucking it up by trying to reinvent the wheel.
- That won't be the best of all possible outcomes but it's better than if the Liberals get another chance at mucking things up.
- One of the hardest things we ever have to learn is that you can't lead other people's lives for them, however intent they seem on mucking them up.
- I guess we have to wait for the mainstream media to muck things up this badly.
- Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up.
- I get scared that I shall muck something up badly, so I tend not to volunteer for things.
- I'm born and bred in Coatbridge and I live here, so there's no hiding place for me if I muck it up.
- So unless I muck things up incredibly, I should be okay moneywise for the next few decades or so.
Synonyms
make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage

Origin

Middle English muk, probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Old Norse myki 'dung', from a Germanic base meaning 'soft', shared by meek.

English muck is from an early Scandinavian word that goes back to a ancient root meaning ‘slippery, slimy’ from which mucus (mid 17th century) also descends. The verb first meant ‘to clean muck from’ and ‘to spread manure’, from which we get muck up or make a mess of and muck around, ‘to behave in a silly or aimless way’. Down-to-earth northerners might often comment that where there's muck there's brass. This form of the proverb, using brass in the sense ‘money’, is recorded in print only from the 1960s, but an earlier version was where there's muck there's money. The Australians introduced Lady Muck and Lord Muck at the beginning of the 20th century as names for a socially pretentious woman or man. The first muckraking was done by poor people, who would collect manure from the filthy streets of the city in the hope of selling it or finding something valuable. Since the start of the 20th century it has been used for searching out and publicizing scandal about people. Mucker or ‘friend’ was originally military slang, first recorded in the 1940s. It probably comes from the idea of a friend being a person who ‘mucks in’ or shares tasks cheerfully.

Rhymes

buck, Canuck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, luck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck

Definition of muck in US English:

muck

nounməkmək

1Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter.
污垢；垃圾；废物
I'll just clean the muck off the windshield
我只擦掉挡风玻璃上的污垢。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was muck, sludge, and sewage every day of the campaign.
- I finished the gutters, sprayed some water up there to clean out the muck, and then surveyed the entire leaf-in-yard situation.
- The smog monster Hedora is an interesting creation, being made entirely out of sludge and muck.
- Then she screamed - the first scream of her adult life - as a slimy mixture of grease, muck and dirt poured out over her ankles.
- The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day.
- The floor was stone, but seemed to be hidden under a thin layer of muck, and debris from above.
- The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility.
- Not that there's much to see: what's at the bottom is not water, but muck and debris.
- This was an isolated incident, but residents were angry about the amount of muck, dirt and stones coming off each site on the lorries' wheels.
- He pointed out that an ordinary person leaving muck on a road would have to clean up the road afterwards.
- I have lived like we did in the jungles, in dirt and filth and muck, unwashed and unkempt.
- ‘Surely there must be a better way than having people wade through muck and dirt to these sites,’ he said.
- It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water.
- He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse.
- We're under the river - you realize - covered by metal, cement, rock, dirt, silt, muck, and water.
- Wells provided the villagers with clean drinking water, rather than the chocolate-coloured muck I had been swimming in.
- The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots.
- Apart from the litter have you also noticed the amount of muck and dirt on the roads this winter?
- A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water.
- At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches.
Synonyms
dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, sludge, scum, mire, mess, rubbish
1. 1.1 Farmyard manure, widely used as fertilizer.
  堆肥；厩肥
  Example sentencesExamples
  Farmers poured milk onto muck heaps yesterday at the beginning of a three-day protest at low food prices.
  It stinks of horse muck at the moment and the rubbish is going everywhere.
  We have some wonderful buildings in Trowbridge and they are just covered in bird muck.
  A gentleman took his child on to the new play area and complained about the amount of dog muck.
  A Kendal farmer was landed with a £300 fine this week after putting wildlife at risk by polluting a stream with watery cow muck.
  Under amendments to the Waste Management and Licensing Regulations, livery yards, stables and riding schools who add anything to their muck to compost it for fertiliser will be eligible for the fee.
  A Darwen mother is refusing to let her daughter join a school ‘walking bus’ because she says the pavements are covered in dog muck.
  Farmers could earn substantial guaranteed income by utilising spare farm buildings to feed pigs - and use the muck to reduce fertiliser costs and boost cereal yields.
  He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter!
  One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields.
  But with fewer livestock now being kept, the steaming muck and straw is worth £20 a ton and farmers want to keep what they have got for their own land.
  I assume the ‘very’ brown boots refers to farmyard muck?
  Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the Farlington Beck.
  ‘As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car,’ he said.
  When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds.
  Fly tipped garden rubbish is as much a stain on the countryside as dog muck and litter.
  On two occasions I have had a large amount of dog muck deposited on the pavement outside my house.
  Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders.
  They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine.
  When the Victorians planted them the only problem was sheep muck and cow muck.
  Synonyms
  dung, manure, ordure, excrement, excreta, droppings, faeces, cowpats, guano, sewage
2. 1.2informal Something regarded as worthless, sordid, or corrupt.
  〈非正式〉败坏道德的东西；毫无价值的东西；肮脏的东西
  the muck that passes for music in the pop charts
  流行音乐排行榜上那些滥竽充数的作品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike real junk food, this rhetorical muck comes with no warnings about its worthless contents.
  My mammalian mind remains mired in the earthly muck of doubt.
  And his daughters certainly don't deserve this sort of muck, regardless of what you might think of his policies and what his policies have done to other people's families.
  ‘A lot of breweries were producing muck,’ Hal said.
  This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks.
  First we read the menu: there's nowt but foreign muck,
  Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign.
  The only problem was some bizarre muck - apparently pineapple and cucumber salsa - on the side of my plate, where it remained untroubled while the turbot disappeared at top speed.
  He seems to have a genuine hatred for and problem with the muck so many kids get raised on, and recognises that this may be the only hot meal they get that day.

verbməkmək

[with object]British

1muck something outRemove manure and other dirt from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling.
〈主英〉清除马厩（或其他动物棚舍）中的粪（或脏物）
I was mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen
Example sentencesExamples
- He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained.
- In return I had to help muck out and clean the tack.
- For my next assignment, I was instructed to get my hands dirty by mucking out some of the kennels at Foal Farm.
- The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses.
- When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies.
- I went back to her stall and started to muck it out.
- The large shelter, which can accommodate about 50 horses, has been carefully mucked out.
- Could you feed, milk, take out to graze, and muck out my cow while I'm away?
- The empty stalls were full of straw, but at least they had been mucked out.
- The other four muck out - clean out the stables - and do the administration.
- Straw bedding is fine as long as it is mucked out daily, removing all wet material and keeping the bedding as clean as possible at all times.
- The stalls hadn't been mucked out for a long time.
- In between looking after the horses, other duties included mucking out the stables.
- The pair had just finished mucking out the elephant enclosure, which housed five females and two young males, and were giving the animals their daily wash with a power hose at about 8.20 am.
2dialect Spread manure on (land)
〈罕〉施厩肥于（田地）
half the farm is mucked every year
Example sentencesExamples
- Help muck the fields and move hay.
- With the horses we mucked the fields and then went out in the morning to feed everyone.

Phrases

as common as muck

informal Of low social status.
〈英，非正式〉粗俗；地位低下；卑贱
Example sentencesExamples
- She is posing as a lady but she is really as common as muck.
- You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met.
- Sean Connery comes from the East of Scotland, with a 'posh' kinda tone, but we are from the West side and sound as common as muck.
- He's as common as muck, and God help him if he has to perform state duties - he can't stand foreigners.
Synonyms
rabble, scum, refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash, vermin, the lowest of the low, in the underclass, the dregs of society, good-for-nothings, undesirables

make a muck of

informal Handle incompetently.
〈英，非正式〉把…弄糟
it's useless now that they've made a muck of it
Example sentencesExamples
- I think the reason we need all this legislation is that previous legislation made a muck of it, so we have the amendment bill to make sure that the law does not continue as it is.
- ‘No, she's just made a muck of things, that's all.’
- If Finnie makes a muck of it - as I'm sure he will - I wonder if Jack would look in my direction.
- Of course, if her side win today, Nilsmark will be remembered as the great master tactician, but if Europe slips to defeat, she could be accused of making a muck of her choices.
- I found letting my son look after his own money extremely hard as I was sure he would make a muck of it.
Synonyms
make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage

Phrasal Verbs

muck about/around

Behave in a silly or aimless way, especially by wasting time when serious activity is expected.
〈英，非正式〉混日子；吊儿郎当瞎混；胡闹
he spent his summers mucking about in boats
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘At first, nobody could believe this big boy when he first showed up,’ said McHarg, ‘and they couldn't believe the way he mucked around.
- I started mucking around and becoming slack with my work.
- I thought they were mucking around, but now it makes sense.
- It's happened since the children have gone back to school, so it must be kids mucking around.
- I didn't know what to expect, but they were laughing and mucking about.
- Set in 1942 in the Forest of Dean, it's about seven children mucking around on a summer's afternoon.
- I have so many very happy and fond memories of my aunt, who was also my Godmother, and the many hours I used to spend mucking around as a kid with my cousins at her house.
- Scientists, historians and the like need to muck around in libraries and laboratories to achieve their results, but concepts can be analysed in the armchair.
- There's editing and there's just mucking around.
- Mountain bikes are great for mucking around offroad.
- Everyone wrote about mucking around, getting into fights, playing football, except this one kid whose story was all about the hours he spent crying and missing his mum and dad.
- Which is ace, as it's relaxing watching the foxes skulk around in the evening - and last summer, the fox cubs mucking about.
- In 1975, he retired to the shores of Loch Fyne, where he indulged his love of renovating and mucking about in boats.
- We were mucking around as we drove back to our neck of the woods - playing tag through traffic, messing with other drivers - the kind of stuff we used to do all the time when we were 17 or 18.
- He does all the serious stuff, which allows me to muck about.
- So without anymore mucking around, let the interview begin…
- We were in detention together on more than one occasion, me and Andy, for mucking around in class and smoking and stuff (I used to tell my mum I was staying late after school for football practice).
- He talks in class continually and encourages his friends to muck around.
- He put on a blonde wig to imitate my hair, and started mucking around as if we were best mates.
- I think he wasted at least a third of the allocated 90 minutes with his mucking around.
- He was mucking around because, in an all-male boarding school, there weren't any other options.
- Plenty of people enjoy mucking about in boats, but just as many appreciate a power shower and a lie-down in a real bed afterwards.
- In a written statement, Ms Shepherd said: ‘There was a thud, and I thought he was mucking around.’
- ‘It ranges from youngsters mucking around a causing a bit of discomfort to local residents, to really serious misconduct and loutish behaviour right through to serious criminal behaviour,’ he said.
- They reminded me of those ‘mixtures’ created by bored children on rainy days, mucking around in the kitchen with anything liquidy or easily blended.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around

muck about/around with

Tinker with (something), typically so as to damage or spoil it.
have you been mucking about with the aerial?
Example sentencesExamples
- In this exhibition, it's an installation which you're invited to muck around with: go there, add your own content to the magazine, move it all around and turn material over.
- I just want something cool to muck about with in my spare time.
- We've already got new songs that we are mucking around with, so we've almost got a new album ready to go.
- They can't have foreigners coming over and mucking about with their democracy, it might end up with officials becoming responsible for their actions!
- It didn't turn out as well as I expected, but I'll be mucking about with it over the break.
- In other cases, film-makers mucked around with the novels, mistakenly believing that one little tweak would make Greene more cinematic.
- Very difficult to get ones hands on a version as it's been mucked about with quite a bit.
- As the outgoing controller of Radio Four could tell you, it's dangerous to muck around with BBC tradition.
- Having a passport is a fundamental right of New Zealand citizenship and should not be mucked around with in that way.
- He gets to muck around with all the latest PC hardware and has a hand in making some of the fastest gaming rigs going.
- They realise that India is too important for the sponsors to muck around with.
- Most people treasure their right to vote and get very upset if anyone tries to muck about with it.
- I generate the material, kind of leave it to them to muck around with, and go off and write some more.
- Yep, I've been mucking around with the site's appearance again.
- When we arranged this test Marcos asked me to make allowances because I'd be testing the development prototype which was being constantly mucked about with.
- I think there are certain benchmark institutions and arrangements in our society that you don't muck around with, and children should be brought up ideally by a mother and a father who are married.
- Didn't play golf this weekend, as I had a bit of a turn early Saturday morning due to mucking about with my medication dosages and had to cancel.
- Youths should realise they are putting their lives and those of other people at risk when they muck around with what are without doubt dangerous items.
- Then David had a look, and after grumbling how people had been mucking about with it, he had it going as good as new.
- They all got their start by mucking about with existing machines and trying to make them better.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around
interfere, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, play about, play around, tamper, meddle, tinker, monkey, monkey about, monkey around

muck something up

Do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something.
she had mucked up her first few weeks at college
她进大学后头几个星期事情一团糟。
Example sentencesExamples
- If I do I'd better not muck it up or I won't get another chance.
- Knowing them, I have a feeling they'll manage to muck it up somehow.
- I'm born and bred in Coatbridge and I live here, so there's no hiding place for me if I muck it up.
- But no, they insist on mucking it up by deciding for themselves.
- It is one thing to have the US government mucking things up overseas.
- Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up.
- If anything, they've gotten a bit crafty with the songwriting, without mucking it up by trying to reinvent the wheel.
- So unless I muck things up incredibly, I should be okay moneywise for the next few decades or so.
- I guess we have to wait for the mainstream media to muck things up this badly.
- One of the hardest things we ever have to learn is that you can't lead other people's lives for them, however intent they seem on mucking them up.
- You wouldn't want someone to come in just about when we're almost finished and muck it up.
- Well, the New Zealand corporates are trying at least, but they do seem to muck things up when it comes to helping out local acts.
- Being more than friends just totally mucks things up.
- I get scared that I shall muck something up badly, so I tend not to volunteer for things.
- It made her realise that what's important in a recording is to show your creative side ‘because you do have a second chance if you muck something up.’
- That won't be the best of all possible outcomes but it's better than if the Liberals get another chance at mucking things up.
- Maybe it's the girls who have mucked things up in this case.
- But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence?
- When I was a kid, of course, I drew in them, ripped pages and covers, and generally mucked them up, but by the time I was in university I kept all my books in perfect shape.
- ‘I'll tell you what happened before Agent Miller mucks the whole story up,’ Loki said with a cold glance at Miller.
Synonyms
make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage

Origin

Middle English muk, probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Old Norse myki ‘dung’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘soft’, shared by meek.

词汇	muck
释义	Definition of muck in English: muck noun mʌkmək mass noun 1Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter. 污垢；垃圾；废物 I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen 我只擦掉挡风玻璃上的污垢。 Example sentencesExamples The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility. The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots. At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches. It was muck, sludge, and sewage every day of the campaign. I have lived like we did in the jungles, in dirt and filth and muck, unwashed and unkempt. Apart from the litter have you also noticed the amount of muck and dirt on the roads this winter? This was an isolated incident, but residents were angry about the amount of muck, dirt and stones coming off each site on the lorries' wheels. A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water. The floor was stone, but seemed to be hidden under a thin layer of muck, and debris from above. Not that there's much to see: what's at the bottom is not water, but muck and debris. ‘Surely there must be a better way than having people wade through muck and dirt to these sites,’ he said. He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse. We're under the river - you realize - covered by metal, cement, rock, dirt, silt, muck, and water. Then she screamed - the first scream of her adult life - as a slimy mixture of grease, muck and dirt poured out over her ankles. The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day. It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water. I finished the gutters, sprayed some water up there to clean out the muck, and then surveyed the entire leaf-in-yard situation. The smog monster Hedora is an interesting creation, being made entirely out of sludge and muck. He pointed out that an ordinary person leaving muck on a road would have to clean up the road afterwards. Wells provided the villagers with clean drinking water, rather than the chocolate-coloured muck I had been swimming in. Synonyms dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, sludge, scum, mire, mess, rubbish informal crud, gunk, grunge, gloop, gook, goo, yuck British informal gunge, grot North American informal guck, glop 1.1 Farmyard manure, widely used as fertilizer. 堆肥；厩肥 he was covered in cow muck and mud Example sentencesExamples A Kendal farmer was landed with a £300 fine this week after putting wildlife at risk by polluting a stream with watery cow muck. Under amendments to the Waste Management and Licensing Regulations, livery yards, stables and riding schools who add anything to their muck to compost it for fertiliser will be eligible for the fee. When the Victorians planted them the only problem was sheep muck and cow muck. ‘As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car,’ he said. A gentleman took his child on to the new play area and complained about the amount of dog muck. We have some wonderful buildings in Trowbridge and they are just covered in bird muck. It stinks of horse muck at the moment and the rubbish is going everywhere. On two occasions I have had a large amount of dog muck deposited on the pavement outside my house. When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds. He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter! Farmers poured milk onto muck heaps yesterday at the beginning of a three-day protest at low food prices. A Darwen mother is refusing to let her daughter join a school ‘walking bus’ because she says the pavements are covered in dog muck. They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine. Fly tipped garden rubbish is as much a stain on the countryside as dog muck and litter. One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields. I assume the ‘very’ brown boots refers to farmyard muck? Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders. Farmers could earn substantial guaranteed income by utilising spare farm buildings to feed pigs - and use the muck to reduce fertiliser costs and boost cereal yields. But with fewer livestock now being kept, the steaming muck and straw is worth £20 a ton and farmers want to keep what they have got for their own land. Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the Farlington Beck. Synonyms dung, manure, ordure, excrement, excreta, droppings, faeces, cowpats, guano, sewage North American informal cow chips, horse apples vulgar slang shit, crap rare feculence 1.2informal Something regarded as distasteful, unpleasant, or of poor quality. why do you let her read this muck? Example sentencesExamples Unlike real junk food, this rhetorical muck comes with no warnings about its worthless contents. ‘A lot of breweries were producing muck,’ Hal said. This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks. The only problem was some bizarre muck - apparently pineapple and cucumber salsa - on the side of my plate, where it remained untroubled while the turbot disappeared at top speed. Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign. He seems to have a genuine hatred for and problem with the muck so many kids get raised on, and recognises that this may be the only hot meal they get that day. First we read the menu: there's nowt but foreign muck, My mammalian mind remains mired in the earthly muck of doubt. And his daughters certainly don't deserve this sort of muck, regardless of what you might think of his policies and what his policies have done to other people's families. verb mʌkmək [with object]British 1muck something outRemove manure and other dirt from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling. 〈主英〉清除马厩（或其他动物棚舍）中的粪（或脏物） I was mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen Example sentencesExamples In between looking after the horses, other duties included mucking out the stables. The empty stalls were full of straw, but at least they had been mucked out. When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies. I went back to her stall and started to muck it out. He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained. The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses. In return I had to help muck out and clean the tack. Could you feed, milk, take out to graze, and muck out my cow while I'm away? Straw bedding is fine as long as it is mucked out daily, removing all wet material and keeping the bedding as clean as possible at all times. The large shelter, which can accommodate about 50 horses, has been carefully mucked out. The other four muck out - clean out the stables - and do the administration. The stalls hadn't been mucked out for a long time. The pair had just finished mucking out the elephant enclosure, which housed five females and two young males, and were giving the animals their daily wash with a power hose at about 8.20 am. For my next assignment, I was instructed to get my hands dirty by mucking out some of the kennels at Foal Farm. 2dialect Spread manure on (land) 〈罕〉施厩肥于（田地） half the farm is mucked every year Example sentencesExamples Help muck the fields and move hay. With the horses we mucked the fields and then went out in the morning to feed everyone. Phrases as common as muck informal Of low social status. 〈英，非正式〉粗俗；地位低下；卑贱 Example sentencesExamples She is posing as a lady but she is really as common as muck. You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met. He's as common as muck, and God help him if he has to perform state duties - he can't stand foreigners. Sean Connery comes from the East of Scotland, with a 'posh' kinda tone, but we are from the West side and sound as common as muck. Synonyms rabble, scum, refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash, vermin, the lowest of the low, in the underclass, the dregs of society, good-for-nothings, undesirables make a muck of informal Handle (something) incompetently. 〈英，非正式〉把…弄糟 the taxi driver made a muck of it and took me to the wrong place Example sentencesExamples If Finnie makes a muck of it - as I'm sure he will - I wonder if Jack would look in my direction. I think the reason we need all this legislation is that previous legislation made a muck of it, so we have the amendment bill to make sure that the law does not continue as it is. ‘No, she's just made a muck of things, that's all.’ Of course, if her side win today, Nilsmark will be remembered as the great master tactician, but if Europe slips to defeat, she could be accused of making a muck of her choices. I found letting my son look after his own money extremely hard as I was sure he would make a muck of it. Synonyms make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage where there's muck there's brass proverb Dirty or unpleasant activities are also lucrative. 〈谚〉要致富别怕脏 Example sentencesExamples Unbelievably, this mountain of narcotics had been found in bins, but then, as the saying goes - where there's muck there's brass. It used to be said that where there's muck there's brass, but here's an updated adage: where there's a publicly owned body there's money to be made. Oscar Brogden has proved that where there's muck there's brass by salvaging 1,000 bicycles from Manchester's bins. ‘You have to roll your sleeves up and say ‘where there's muck there's brass’.’ The old phrase ‘where there's muck there's brass’ rings true for a pioneering Bradford firm after profits increased by more than a third. Phrasal Verbs muck about/around Behave in a silly or aimless way. we just muck around in training and have a laugh 我们在训练时只是胡闹一通，找找乐子罢了。 Example sentencesExamples I started mucking around and becoming slack with my work. I thought they were mucking around, but now it makes sense. We were mucking around as we drove back to our neck of the woods - playing tag through traffic, messing with other drivers - the kind of stuff we used to do all the time when we were 17 or 18. ‘It ranges from youngsters mucking around a causing a bit of discomfort to local residents, to really serious misconduct and loutish behaviour right through to serious criminal behaviour,’ he said. We were in detention together on more than one occasion, me and Andy, for mucking around in class and smoking and stuff (I used to tell my mum I was staying late after school for football practice). They reminded me of those ‘mixtures’ created by bored children on rainy days, mucking around in the kitchen with anything liquidy or easily blended. Set in 1942 in the Forest of Dean, it's about seven children mucking around on a summer's afternoon. He does all the serious stuff, which allows me to muck about. I didn't know what to expect, but they were laughing and mucking about. It's happened since the children have gone back to school, so it must be kids mucking around. Which is ace, as it's relaxing watching the foxes skulk around in the evening - and last summer, the fox cubs mucking about. I have so many very happy and fond memories of my aunt, who was also my Godmother, and the many hours I used to spend mucking around as a kid with my cousins at her house. There's editing and there's just mucking around. Mountain bikes are great for mucking around offroad. In a written statement, Ms Shepherd said: ‘There was a thud, and I thought he was mucking around.’ Scientists, historians and the like need to muck around in libraries and laboratories to achieve their results, but concepts can be analysed in the armchair. ‘At first, nobody could believe this big boy when he first showed up,’ said McHarg, ‘and they couldn't believe the way he mucked around. He talks in class continually and encourages his friends to muck around. In 1975, he retired to the shores of Loch Fyne, where he indulged his love of renovating and mucking about in boats. He put on a blonde wig to imitate my hair, and started mucking around as if we were best mates. Plenty of people enjoy mucking about in boats, but just as many appreciate a power shower and a lie-down in a real bed afterwards. He was mucking around because, in an all-male boarding school, there weren't any other options. Everyone wrote about mucking around, getting into fights, playing football, except this one kid whose story was all about the hours he spent crying and missing his mum and dad. So without anymore mucking around, let the interview begin… I think he wasted at least a third of the allocated 90 minutes with his mucking around. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around muck about/around with Tinker with (something), typically so as to damage or spoil it. have you been mucking about with the aerial? Example sentencesExamples They realise that India is too important for the sponsors to muck around with. I think there are certain benchmark institutions and arrangements in our society that you don't muck around with, and children should be brought up ideally by a mother and a father who are married. He gets to muck around with all the latest PC hardware and has a hand in making some of the fastest gaming rigs going. In other cases, film-makers mucked around with the novels, mistakenly believing that one little tweak would make Greene more cinematic. Yep, I've been mucking around with the site's appearance again. In this exhibition, it's an installation which you're invited to muck around with: go there, add your own content to the magazine, move it all around and turn material over. We've already got new songs that we are mucking around with, so we've almost got a new album ready to go. They can't have foreigners coming over and mucking about with their democracy, it might end up with officials becoming responsible for their actions! When we arranged this test Marcos asked me to make allowances because I'd be testing the development prototype which was being constantly mucked about with. Very difficult to get ones hands on a version as it's been mucked about with quite a bit. Then David had a look, and after grumbling how people had been mucking about with it, he had it going as good as new. I generate the material, kind of leave it to them to muck around with, and go off and write some more. Didn't play golf this weekend, as I had a bit of a turn early Saturday morning due to mucking about with my medication dosages and had to cancel. As the outgoing controller of Radio Four could tell you, it's dangerous to muck around with BBC tradition. Youths should realise they are putting their lives and those of other people at risk when they muck around with what are without doubt dangerous items. Having a passport is a fundamental right of New Zealand citizenship and should not be mucked around with in that way. I just want something cool to muck about with in my spare time. Most people treasure their right to vote and get very upset if anyone tries to muck about with it. It didn't turn out as well as I expected, but I'll be mucking about with it over the break. They all got their start by mucking about with existing machines and trying to make them better. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around interfere, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, play about, play around, tamper, meddle, tinker, monkey, monkey about, monkey around muck someone about/around Treat someone inconsiderately, typically by disrupting their plans. 〈英，非正式〉轻率对待（尤指打乱某人的行动或计划） what the management has to learn is that we can't be mucked about Example sentencesExamples I think that an apology would be nice, because they have mucked me around for long enough. Psychologists like to talk about ‘locus of control’ and ‘cognitive mapping’ - lofty terms for not letting other people muck you about, and developing a sense of place. Then someone did ring from Staples, apologised for mucking me around, all to do with a new warehouse, blah blah. I wouldn't let them muck me around like that. I told Matt what my thoughts were and I don't want to muck him about. I'm sure you realise that I am in no state to have anyone muck me around. Even though I should have been really annoyed with Tony for having mucked me about like that, I couldn't help but grin in wonder at the impish cunning which lurked beneath his angelic exterior. You don't want to kill him, but if he mucks you around, well, something's gonna happen to him. But I don't want to muck them around either and would like to know where I stand. Steve showed up in the afternoon; he was friendly, clearly knew a bit about cars and didn't muck me about. We understand that prisoners could have the right to sue if the Department of Corrections mucks them around. If they start mucking you around speak to their complaints department, get them to send you another form with a self-addressed envelope so they cannot say it's gone elsewhere. I didn't actually see the draw but my mum rang me and I thought she was mucking me about. It would add hours to his commuting time, ruin his wife's photography business and generally muck them about. The real issue going on at Casino Avenue Towers is my washing machine. It's mucking me about again, refusing to complete its cycles. She snapped: ‘You can't muck me around like this, Terry, I've made arrangements.’ We are fed up with getting mucked around and even though we had other players ill with flu we just decided to go ahead. muck in Share tasks or accommodation without expecting a privileged position. 〈英，非正式〉（不计地位地）一起工作；同吃同住 she really enjoys mucking in with the lads 她的确喜欢和小伙子们一起干活。 Example sentencesExamples Telecom's technology was far more basic in the early days and a country manager was expected to muck in when lines went down. Raised in Anstruther, where her parents run a hotel, she was used to mucking in and helping with the waitressing, cooking and cleaning, as required. There is a good community feel about us, everybody mucks in and they just want me to succeed in the new club. I must stress at this point that our friends are pretty good at mucking in and we do enjoy seeing them. When they finally get home, they are, quite reasonably, expected to muck in with the shopping, cleaning and childcare. Beer, spare parts and tales of the day's adventures are enthusiastically shared while everybody mucks in with repairs. From sweeping the floors to reading bedtime stories, the show sees Melinda mucking in with all the daily tasks of the house. Happy to muck in with any number of undignified playgroup tasks, one dad has been quick to name his price. Angela says the response from parents has been overwhelming and many have become involved themselves, either musically or mucking in with stage management. It was good to see there is some community spirit left with everyone mucking in to lend a hand and do whatever they could. Everyone is expected to muck in with the camp chores: pitching tents, collecting firewood, cooking the meals and shopping in local markets. ‘Christmas Day is exactly the same as it is in anyone's home - it's a bit hectic and everyone mucks in,’ he said. Catches of fish were shared, friends mucked in to build neighbours' homes, sods were replaced after peat-cutting and even the soot-covered inner thatch was recycled as fertiliser. The middle of five children (four girls and a boy), she grew up in Yorkshire on a small cattle farm and spent her childhood outdoors, mucking in feeding the livestock, chasing them when they ran amok through neighbours' gardens. It is inherent in student life that different students will come and go at different times and that groups will vary in their habits so far as sharing expenses and generally mucking in are concerned… They are quite self-orientated usually, but after a week mucking in with their cousins, they help out more. Indeed, said Doreen, many guests were amazed to see her mucking in around the farmyard in a pair of overalls, but B&B fits in well with the farming business, with Doreen and her husband Peter working at both. The nurses are brilliant and because it's so small everyone just mucks in. It is like a family, and when the chips are down, everybody is there and just sort of mucks in, she says. He likes a beer and he socialises and he mucks in. Synonyms help out, help, assist, lend a hand, join in, pitch in, participate, play a part, contribute, do one's bit, chip in, cooperate, collaborate, put one's shoulder to the wheel muck up Behave badly; mess around. boys are more likely to muck up at what they see as poor teaching Example sentencesExamples With the boss away, he steps up to umpire the hour when the kids muck up for the cameras. They can muck up, and make fun, and even make your life hard. He spent most of his time shouting at me because I was always mucking up and answering back. If you muck up again it becomes a criminal charge. If you muck up, you're automatically eligible for three months jail. There are many things that can distract a driver, and kids and pets mucking up in the backseat is a classic. Even though he mucks up all the time, he gets away with it because the teachers think of him as some sort of eccentric genius. There've been numerous other similar incidents this year of footballers mucking up in public. They fear you might use the certainty of a weekly wage to start mucking up again. What does a court do where one of the parents deliberately mucks up? muck something up Do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something. she had mucked up her first few weeks at college 她进大学后头几个星期事情一团糟。 Example sentencesExamples It made her realise that what's important in a recording is to show your creative side ‘because you do have a second chance if you muck something up.’ Knowing them, I have a feeling they'll manage to muck it up somehow. You wouldn't want someone to come in just about when we're almost finished and muck it up. But no, they insist on mucking it up by deciding for themselves. Being more than friends just totally mucks things up. When I was a kid, of course, I drew in them, ripped pages and covers, and generally mucked them up, but by the time I was in university I kept all my books in perfect shape. Maybe it's the girls who have mucked things up in this case. If I do I'd better not muck it up or I won't get another chance. It is one thing to have the US government mucking things up overseas. But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence? Well, the New Zealand corporates are trying at least, but they do seem to muck things up when it comes to helping out local acts. ‘I'll tell you what happened before Agent Miller mucks the whole story up,’ Loki said with a cold glance at Miller. If anything, they've gotten a bit crafty with the songwriting, without mucking it up by trying to reinvent the wheel. That won't be the best of all possible outcomes but it's better than if the Liberals get another chance at mucking things up. One of the hardest things we ever have to learn is that you can't lead other people's lives for them, however intent they seem on mucking them up. I guess we have to wait for the mainstream media to muck things up this badly. Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up. I get scared that I shall muck something up badly, so I tend not to volunteer for things. I'm born and bred in Coatbridge and I live here, so there's no hiding place for me if I muck it up. So unless I muck things up incredibly, I should be okay moneywise for the next few decades or so. Synonyms make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage Origin Middle English muk, probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Old Norse myki 'dung', from a Germanic base meaning 'soft', shared by meek. English muck is from an early Scandinavian word that goes back to a ancient root meaning ‘slippery, slimy’ from which mucus (mid 17th century) also descends. The verb first meant ‘to clean muck from’ and ‘to spread manure’, from which we get muck up or make a mess of and muck around, ‘to behave in a silly or aimless way’. Down-to-earth northerners might often comment that where there's muck there's brass. This form of the proverb, using brass in the sense ‘money’, is recorded in print only from the 1960s, but an earlier version was where there's muck there's money. The Australians introduced Lady Muck and Lord Muck at the beginning of the 20th century as names for a socially pretentious woman or man. The first muckraking was done by poor people, who would collect manure from the filthy streets of the city in the hope of selling it or finding something valuable. Since the start of the 20th century it has been used for searching out and publicizing scandal about people. Mucker or ‘friend’ was originally military slang, first recorded in the 1940s. It probably comes from the idea of a friend being a person who ‘mucks in’ or shares tasks cheerfully. Rhymes buck, Canuck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, luck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of muck in US English: muck nounməkmək 1Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter. 污垢；垃圾；废物 I'll just clean the muck off the windshield 我只擦掉挡风玻璃上的污垢。 Example sentencesExamples It was muck, sludge, and sewage every day of the campaign. I finished the gutters, sprayed some water up there to clean out the muck, and then surveyed the entire leaf-in-yard situation. The smog monster Hedora is an interesting creation, being made entirely out of sludge and muck. Then she screamed - the first scream of her adult life - as a slimy mixture of grease, muck and dirt poured out over her ankles. The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day. The floor was stone, but seemed to be hidden under a thin layer of muck, and debris from above. The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility. Not that there's much to see: what's at the bottom is not water, but muck and debris. This was an isolated incident, but residents were angry about the amount of muck, dirt and stones coming off each site on the lorries' wheels. He pointed out that an ordinary person leaving muck on a road would have to clean up the road afterwards. I have lived like we did in the jungles, in dirt and filth and muck, unwashed and unkempt. ‘Surely there must be a better way than having people wade through muck and dirt to these sites,’ he said. It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water. He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse. We're under the river - you realize - covered by metal, cement, rock, dirt, silt, muck, and water. Wells provided the villagers with clean drinking water, rather than the chocolate-coloured muck I had been swimming in. The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots. Apart from the litter have you also noticed the amount of muck and dirt on the roads this winter? A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water. At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches. Synonyms dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, sludge, scum, mire, mess, rubbish 1.1 Farmyard manure, widely used as fertilizer. 堆肥；厩肥 Example sentencesExamples Farmers poured milk onto muck heaps yesterday at the beginning of a three-day protest at low food prices. It stinks of horse muck at the moment and the rubbish is going everywhere. We have some wonderful buildings in Trowbridge and they are just covered in bird muck. A gentleman took his child on to the new play area and complained about the amount of dog muck. A Kendal farmer was landed with a £300 fine this week after putting wildlife at risk by polluting a stream with watery cow muck. Under amendments to the Waste Management and Licensing Regulations, livery yards, stables and riding schools who add anything to their muck to compost it for fertiliser will be eligible for the fee. A Darwen mother is refusing to let her daughter join a school ‘walking bus’ because she says the pavements are covered in dog muck. Farmers could earn substantial guaranteed income by utilising spare farm buildings to feed pigs - and use the muck to reduce fertiliser costs and boost cereal yields. He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter! One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields. But with fewer livestock now being kept, the steaming muck and straw is worth £20 a ton and farmers want to keep what they have got for their own land. I assume the ‘very’ brown boots refers to farmyard muck? Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the Farlington Beck. ‘As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car,’ he said. When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds. Fly tipped garden rubbish is as much a stain on the countryside as dog muck and litter. On two occasions I have had a large amount of dog muck deposited on the pavement outside my house. Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders. They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine. When the Victorians planted them the only problem was sheep muck and cow muck. Synonyms dung, manure, ordure, excrement, excreta, droppings, faeces, cowpats, guano, sewage 1.2informal Something regarded as worthless, sordid, or corrupt. 〈非正式〉败坏道德的东西；毫无价值的东西；肮脏的东西 the muck that passes for music in the pop charts 流行音乐排行榜上那些滥竽充数的作品。 Example sentencesExamples Unlike real junk food, this rhetorical muck comes with no warnings about its worthless contents. My mammalian mind remains mired in the earthly muck of doubt. And his daughters certainly don't deserve this sort of muck, regardless of what you might think of his policies and what his policies have done to other people's families. ‘A lot of breweries were producing muck,’ Hal said. This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks. First we read the menu: there's nowt but foreign muck, Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign. The only problem was some bizarre muck - apparently pineapple and cucumber salsa - on the side of my plate, where it remained untroubled while the turbot disappeared at top speed. He seems to have a genuine hatred for and problem with the muck so many kids get raised on, and recognises that this may be the only hot meal they get that day. verbməkmək [with object]British 1muck something outRemove manure and other dirt from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling. 〈主英〉清除马厩（或其他动物棚舍）中的粪（或脏物） I was mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen Example sentencesExamples He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained. In return I had to help muck out and clean the tack. For my next assignment, I was instructed to get my hands dirty by mucking out some of the kennels at Foal Farm. The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses. When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies. I went back to her stall and started to muck it out. The large shelter, which can accommodate about 50 horses, has been carefully mucked out. Could you feed, milk, take out to graze, and muck out my cow while I'm away? The empty stalls were full of straw, but at least they had been mucked out. The other four muck out - clean out the stables - and do the administration. Straw bedding is fine as long as it is mucked out daily, removing all wet material and keeping the bedding as clean as possible at all times. The stalls hadn't been mucked out for a long time. In between looking after the horses, other duties included mucking out the stables. The pair had just finished mucking out the elephant enclosure, which housed five females and two young males, and were giving the animals their daily wash with a power hose at about 8.20 am. 2dialect Spread manure on (land) 〈罕〉施厩肥于（田地） half the farm is mucked every year Example sentencesExamples Help muck the fields and move hay. With the horses we mucked the fields and then went out in the morning to feed everyone. Phrases as common as muck informal Of low social status. 〈英，非正式〉粗俗；地位低下；卑贱 Example sentencesExamples She is posing as a lady but she is really as common as muck. You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met. Sean Connery comes from the East of Scotland, with a 'posh' kinda tone, but we are from the West side and sound as common as muck. He's as common as muck, and God help him if he has to perform state duties - he can't stand foreigners. Synonyms rabble, scum, refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash, vermin, the lowest of the low, in the underclass, the dregs of society, good-for-nothings, undesirables make a muck of informal Handle incompetently. 〈英，非正式〉把…弄糟 it's useless now that they've made a muck of it Example sentencesExamples I think the reason we need all this legislation is that previous legislation made a muck of it, so we have the amendment bill to make sure that the law does not continue as it is. ‘No, she's just made a muck of things, that's all.’ If Finnie makes a muck of it - as I'm sure he will - I wonder if Jack would look in my direction. Of course, if her side win today, Nilsmark will be remembered as the great master tactician, but if Europe slips to defeat, she could be accused of making a muck of her choices. I found letting my son look after his own money extremely hard as I was sure he would make a muck of it. Synonyms make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage Phrasal Verbs muck about/around Behave in a silly or aimless way, especially by wasting time when serious activity is expected. 〈英，非正式〉混日子；吊儿郎当瞎混；胡闹 he spent his summers mucking about in boats Example sentencesExamples ‘At first, nobody could believe this big boy when he first showed up,’ said McHarg, ‘and they couldn't believe the way he mucked around. I started mucking around and becoming slack with my work. I thought they were mucking around, but now it makes sense. It's happened since the children have gone back to school, so it must be kids mucking around. I didn't know what to expect, but they were laughing and mucking about. Set in 1942 in the Forest of Dean, it's about seven children mucking around on a summer's afternoon. I have so many very happy and fond memories of my aunt, who was also my Godmother, and the many hours I used to spend mucking around as a kid with my cousins at her house. Scientists, historians and the like need to muck around in libraries and laboratories to achieve their results, but concepts can be analysed in the armchair. There's editing and there's just mucking around. Mountain bikes are great for mucking around offroad. Everyone wrote about mucking around, getting into fights, playing football, except this one kid whose story was all about the hours he spent crying and missing his mum and dad. Which is ace, as it's relaxing watching the foxes skulk around in the evening - and last summer, the fox cubs mucking about. In 1975, he retired to the shores of Loch Fyne, where he indulged his love of renovating and mucking about in boats. We were mucking around as we drove back to our neck of the woods - playing tag through traffic, messing with other drivers - the kind of stuff we used to do all the time when we were 17 or 18. He does all the serious stuff, which allows me to muck about. So without anymore mucking around, let the interview begin… We were in detention together on more than one occasion, me and Andy, for mucking around in class and smoking and stuff (I used to tell my mum I was staying late after school for football practice). He talks in class continually and encourages his friends to muck around. He put on a blonde wig to imitate my hair, and started mucking around as if we were best mates. I think he wasted at least a third of the allocated 90 minutes with his mucking around. He was mucking around because, in an all-male boarding school, there weren't any other options. Plenty of people enjoy mucking about in boats, but just as many appreciate a power shower and a lie-down in a real bed afterwards. In a written statement, Ms Shepherd said: ‘There was a thud, and I thought he was mucking around.’ ‘It ranges from youngsters mucking around a causing a bit of discomfort to local residents, to really serious misconduct and loutish behaviour right through to serious criminal behaviour,’ he said. They reminded me of those ‘mixtures’ created by bored children on rainy days, mucking around in the kitchen with anything liquidy or easily blended. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around muck about/around with Tinker with (something), typically so as to damage or spoil it. have you been mucking about with the aerial? Example sentencesExamples In this exhibition, it's an installation which you're invited to muck around with: go there, add your own content to the magazine, move it all around and turn material over. I just want something cool to muck about with in my spare time. We've already got new songs that we are mucking around with, so we've almost got a new album ready to go. They can't have foreigners coming over and mucking about with their democracy, it might end up with officials becoming responsible for their actions! It didn't turn out as well as I expected, but I'll be mucking about with it over the break. In other cases, film-makers mucked around with the novels, mistakenly believing that one little tweak would make Greene more cinematic. Very difficult to get ones hands on a version as it's been mucked about with quite a bit. As the outgoing controller of Radio Four could tell you, it's dangerous to muck around with BBC tradition. Having a passport is a fundamental right of New Zealand citizenship and should not be mucked around with in that way. He gets to muck around with all the latest PC hardware and has a hand in making some of the fastest gaming rigs going. They realise that India is too important for the sponsors to muck around with. Most people treasure their right to vote and get very upset if anyone tries to muck about with it. I generate the material, kind of leave it to them to muck around with, and go off and write some more. Yep, I've been mucking around with the site's appearance again. When we arranged this test Marcos asked me to make allowances because I'd be testing the development prototype which was being constantly mucked about with. I think there are certain benchmark institutions and arrangements in our society that you don't muck around with, and children should be brought up ideally by a mother and a father who are married. Didn't play golf this weekend, as I had a bit of a turn early Saturday morning due to mucking about with my medication dosages and had to cancel. Youths should realise they are putting their lives and those of other people at risk when they muck around with what are without doubt dangerous items. Then David had a look, and after grumbling how people had been mucking about with it, he had it going as good as new. They all got their start by mucking about with existing machines and trying to make them better. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play about, play around, fiddle about, fiddle around, amuse oneself, clown about, clown around, footle about, footle around interfere, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, play about, play around, tamper, meddle, tinker, monkey, monkey about, monkey around muck something up Do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something. she had mucked up her first few weeks at college 她进大学后头几个星期事情一团糟。 Example sentencesExamples If I do I'd better not muck it up or I won't get another chance. Knowing them, I have a feeling they'll manage to muck it up somehow. I'm born and bred in Coatbridge and I live here, so there's no hiding place for me if I muck it up. But no, they insist on mucking it up by deciding for themselves. It is one thing to have the US government mucking things up overseas. Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up. If anything, they've gotten a bit crafty with the songwriting, without mucking it up by trying to reinvent the wheel. So unless I muck things up incredibly, I should be okay moneywise for the next few decades or so. I guess we have to wait for the mainstream media to muck things up this badly. One of the hardest things we ever have to learn is that you can't lead other people's lives for them, however intent they seem on mucking them up. You wouldn't want someone to come in just about when we're almost finished and muck it up. Well, the New Zealand corporates are trying at least, but they do seem to muck things up when it comes to helping out local acts. Being more than friends just totally mucks things up. I get scared that I shall muck something up badly, so I tend not to volunteer for things. It made her realise that what's important in a recording is to show your creative side ‘because you do have a second chance if you muck something up.’ That won't be the best of all possible outcomes but it's better than if the Liberals get another chance at mucking things up. Maybe it's the girls who have mucked things up in this case. But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence? When I was a kid, of course, I drew in them, ripped pages and covers, and generally mucked them up, but by the time I was in university I kept all my books in perfect shape. ‘I'll tell you what happened before Agent Miller mucks the whole story up,’ Loki said with a cold glance at Miller. Synonyms make a mess of, mess up, botch, bungle, spoil, ruin, wreck, mishandle, mismanage Origin Middle English muk, probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Old Norse myki ‘dung’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘soft’, shared by meek. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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