[
UK
/mˈʌk/
]
[ US /ˈmək/ ]
[ US /ˈmək/ ]
VERB
-
soil with mud, muck, or mire
The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden - remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
- spread manure, as for fertilization
NOUN
- fecal matter of animals
- any thick, viscous matter
How To Use muck In A Sentence
- But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
- The UK industry no longer relies on casual labourers with a fork to spread muck. Times, Sunday Times
- According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
- The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate. SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool
- I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that.
- We are all sick with mucky colds again and Amelia is in the middle of the worst of it.
- I was delighted to play alongside him for one last time; I wanted to play with my old mucker before he retired and went home to Iceland.
- Ramsden is a good-tempered truth-seeker, not a malevolent muckraker.
- Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march. Chapter XXXVI
- But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young Waverley