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muck `noun` [ mʌk ]

• dirt, rubbish, or waste matter.

• "I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen"

Similar: dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, sludge, scum, mire, mess, rubbish, crud, gunk, grunge, gloop, gook, goo, yuck, gunge, grot, guck, glop, clag,

muck `verb`

• spread manure on (land).

• "half the farm is mucked every year"

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

muck out

• remove manure and other dirt from a stable or other building where animals are kept.

• "she had spent that morning mucking out the stables"

as common as muck

• of low social status.

make a muck of

• handle (something) incompetently.
"the taxi driver made a muck of it and took me to the wrong place"

where there's muck there's brass

• dirty or unpleasant activities are also lucrative.

muck about

• behave in a silly or aimless way.
"we just muck around in training and have a laugh"

muck in

• share tasks or facilities with other people on an equal basis.
"in a small business, everyone has to muck in"

muck out

• remove manure and other dirt from a stable or other building where animals are kept.
"she had spent that morning mucking out the stables"

muck up

• do something badly or ineptly; mishandle something.
"the trust are putting staff on gardening leave because they've mucked up the redundancy process"

muck noun [ mʌk ]

muck verb

muck out

as common as muck

make a muck of

where there's muck there's brass

muck about

muck in

muck out

muck up

muck `noun` [ mʌk ]

muck `verb`