Muck | Mean of muck in English Dictionary

/ˈmʌk/

• Noun
• wet dirt or mud
1. Clean that muck off your shoes.
• solid waste from farm animals
• something that is disgusting
1. How can they expect us to eat this muck? [=garbage, junk]

• to do something badly or with many mistakes
1. He's made a muck of things.
• Verb
• to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious
1. We just mucked about [=messed around] all afternoon.
• to use or do (something) in a way that is not very serious
1. She spent the evening mucking around with [=fooling around with] the computer.
• to be unfair or dishonest with (someone)
1. I want them to stop mucking me around.
2. He's tired of being mucked about. [=(US) jerked around]
• to help out especially by doing work
1. muck in [=pitch in] with the hard work
• to clean (the place where a farm animal lives)
1. We went to the barn to muck out [=clean out] the stalls.
• to make (something) dirty
1. Take those dirty shoes off before you muck up the floor.
• to spoil or ruin (something)
1. He mucked up [=messed up] the speech. = He mucked the speech up.
2. I mucked up my first attempt and had to try again.