muck

  • 41muck up — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb Informal. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess: ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil. Informal: bollix up. Slang:… …

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  • 42muck in — PHRASAL VERB If someone mucks in, they join in with an activity or help other people with a job and do not consider themselves to be too important to do it. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P] Course residents are expected to muck in and be prepared to …

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  • 43muck up — PHRASAL VERB If you muck up or muck something up, you do something very badly so that you fail to achieve what you wanted to. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P] I mucked up at the 13th hole and told myself that this was getting stupid... [V P n (not… …

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  • 44muck — noun 1) I ll just clean off the muck Syn: dirt, grime, filth, mud, slime, mess; informal crud, gunk, grunge, gunge, guck, glop 2) spreading muck on the fields Syn: dung …

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  • 45muck — noun 1) I ll just clean off the muck Syn: dirt, grime, filth, mud, mess; Brit.; informal gunge; N.Amer.; informal guck 2) spreading muck on the fields Syn: dung …

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  • 46muck in — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms muck in : present tense I/you/we/they muck in he/she/it mucks in present participle mucking in past tense mucked in past participle mucked in British informal to join in an activity, especially in order to… …

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  • 47muck —  moist, wet. Lincolnshire. Elsewhere muck signifies dung or straw laid to rot, which is usually very moist ; whence wet as muck …

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  • 48muck-up — /muk up /, n. Informal. a bungled or disordered situation; foul up. [1925 30; n. use of v. phrase muck up] * * * …

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  • 49muck in — verb to join in attaining a common aim If we all muck in we can get this room cleaned in next to no time …

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  • 50muck — Synonyms and related words: amble, ammonia, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bilge, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, botch, bugger up, bungle, carrion, castor bean meal, clay, commercial fertilizer, compost, corruption, dandruff, debris,… …

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