I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clean out the leaves and other muck from your house gutters.
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His hands and fingernails were filthy, his face and legs covered in muck .
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I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen and wing mirrors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But investigators believe the still-lost cockpit recorder either lost its pinger or it has been silenced by being socked in muck .
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Eventually some one will emerge from the muck , the rusty mayoral crown askew on a weary head.
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He sometimes gets his shoes soiled in trying to stay out of the muck .
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Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field, or on to a muck trailer in the yard?
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Soft as muck ! - Half of them have quit already. - Because he only wants the land, see.
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Their suggestions and alternatives might just drag your writing deep into the muck of tired language.
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What else is there to say about muck , glorious muck?
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You'd get your good barley and the muck would go behind the screens.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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You can come up and let yourself go - shout about and that and muck about.
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To McDonough, a stubby 280-pounder, the charm of elective office was not mucking about with papers and figures.
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Blondel then requested the messenger to stop mucking about .
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Not now the poor old feller's dead. - Ben, stop mucking about .
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They're mostly Northerners, and they don't want to muck about .
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The system can be totally operated by spoken commands, eliminating the need for mucking about with rodents or using the keyboard.
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Pupils at Kensington infants' school are having a marvellous time just mucking about .
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You don't go mucking about with things like that.
around
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I'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that.
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Not all managers want their employees mucking around with decisions.
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We just muck around in training and have a laugh.
in
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How long will it take if we all muck in ?
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A filled bath also makes a handy dip for anyone not mucking in properly.
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They were, he said, ready to muck in .
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Marie, who is single, really enjoys mucking in with the lads.
out
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Each does his own mucking out .
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Workers on Monday mucked out basement and main-floor refuse left by the water.
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And the old caretaker lives next door, so he feeds them and mucks out .
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Mares in stalls make mucking out a large number easier.
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I arrived, judging by the noise and the smells, just as they were mucking out the animals.
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And in the evening again, feed and muck out .
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When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes.
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The stable was mucked out properly only once a year, in winter.
up
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He was taking no chances on having too many deaths to muck up his statistics.
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Her house, she says, is being renovated and it's mucking up her schedule.
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She always used to get on to me and tease me and muck up my stuff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the old caretaker lives next door, so he feeds them and mucks out.
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And, as any football-mad kid knows, there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season's kit.
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Each does his own mucking out.
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He was taking no chances on having too many deaths to muck up his statistics.
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Her house, she says, is being renovated and it's mucking up her schedule.
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How long will it take if we all muck in?
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To McDonough, a stubby 280-pounder, the charm of elective office was not mucking about with papers and figures.
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You can come up and let yourself go - shout about and that and muck about.