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muck |
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muck Noun 1. dirt or filth 2. farmyard dung or decaying vegetable matter 3. Slang, chiefly Brit & NZ something of poor quality; rubbish: I don't want to eat this muck 4. make a muck of Slang, chiefly Brit & NZ to ruin or spoil Verb to spread manure upon See also muck about, muck in, etc. [probably Old Norse]
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muck noun 1. dirt, mud, filth, crap (taboo), (slang) sewage, ooze, scum, sludge, mire, slime, slob Irish gunk (informal) gunge (informal) crud (slang) kak S. African (informal) grot (slang) muck something up ruin, bungle, botch, make a mess of, blow (slang) mar, spoil, muff, make a nonsense of, bodge (informal) make a pig's ear of (informal) flub U.S. (slang) make a muck of (slang) mess something up, screw something up (informal) cock something up Brit. (slang) crool or cruel Austral. (slang) Translations (fig) → porquería muck out vt [+ stable] → limpiar muck out vt [+ stable] → nettoyer muck about muck (inf) vi (fool about) → herumalbern vt to muck sb about → mit jdm beliebig umspringen muck around muck vi = muck about muck out muck vt (stable) → ausmisten muck up muck (inf) vt (exam etc) → verpfuschen muck about muck in vi (BRIT ) (col) → mettersi insieme muck out vt [+ stable] → pulire |
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You'll never amount to anything, any of you, till you roll up your sleeves and get right down into the muck. Presently there was a distant blare of military music; it came nearer, still nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound into view, glorious with plumed helmets and flashing mail and flaunting banners and rich doublets and horse-cloths and gilded spear- heads; and through the muck and swine, and naked brats, and joyous dogs, and shabby huts, it took its gallant way, and in its wake we followed. Society, men and women above the ruck and the muck of the water-front and the forecastle--I was appalled by their unlovely mental mediocrity. |
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