Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - muck
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Muck
muck
~1 n informal 1 especially BrE something such as dirt, mud, or another sticky substance that makes something dirty (Come on, let's wipe that muck off your face.) 2 BrE waste matter from animals, especially waste matter that is put on land to make plants grow better (dog muck | They were shovelling muck onto the fields.) 3 something that is unpleasant or of very bad quality (How can you eat that muck? It looks disgusting. | All that paper ever prints is muck about people's sex lives.) 4 as common as muck BrE old-fashioned an insulting way of describing someone of a low social class ~2 v muck about/around phr v BrE informal 1 to behave in a silly way, especially when you should be working or paying attention to something; mess around (mess2) (Stop mucking about and listen! | We spent the days mucking around on the beach.) 2 T muck someone/something about/around) to cause trouble and inconvenience for someone, especially by changing your mind a lot; mess around (mess2) (The travel agent has really been mucking me around over this holiday.) muck in phr v BrE informal 1 to work together with other people in order to get a job done; pitch in (pitch1) (Oh, stop moaning - we've all got to muck in!) 2 to share things with other people (We're a bit short of space. Do you mind mucking in with the other boys?) muck sth out phr v to clean the place where an animal lives (to muck out the stables) muck sth up phr v BrE informal 1 to do something wrong or badly, so that you fail to achieve something (I really mucked up those last two exams.) 2 to spoil something, especially an arrangement or plan (The bad weather mucked up our plans for a picnic.) 3 to make something dirty (Don't muck up your shirt.)
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(mucks, mucking, mucked) Muck is dirt or some other unpleasant substance. (INFORMAL) This congealed muck was interfering with the filter. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English muk, perhaps from Old English -moc; akin to Old Norse myki dung Date: 13th century 1. soft moist farmyard manure 2. slimy dirt or filth 3. a. defamatory remarks or writings b. rubbish, nonsense mindless ~ 4. a. (1) dark highly organic soil (2) mire, mud b. something resembling ~ ; gunk 5. material removed in the process of excavating or mining • ~y adjective II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to clean up; especially to clear of manure or filth — usually used with out b. to clear of ~ 2. to dress (as soil) with ~ 3. to dirty with or as if with ~ ; soil intransitive verb 1. to move or load ~ (as in a mine) 2. a. to engage in aimless activity — usually used with about or around b. putter, tinker — usually used with about or around ~ing around with his computer c. interfere, meddle — usually used with about or around • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 farmyard manure. 2 colloq. dirt or filth; anything disgusting. 3 colloq. an untidy state; a mess. --v.tr. 1 (usu. foll. by up) Brit. colloq. bungle (a job). 2 (foll. by out) remove muck from. 3 make dirty. 4 manure with muck. Phrases and idioms make a muck of colloq. bungle. muck about (or around) Brit. colloq. 1 potter or fool about. 2 (foll. by with) fool or interfere with. muck in Brit. (often foll. by with) share tasks etc. equally. muck sweat Brit. colloq. a profuse sweat. Etymology: ME muk prob. f. Scand.: cf. ON myki dung, rel. to MEEK ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) отбитая порода; отбитая руда 2) отвал; грунт, вынутый при земляных работах - broken muck - tunnel muck ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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отвал; извлечённый грунт илистый грунт, ил масса взорванного грунта tunnel muck извлечённый при проходке тоннеля грунт пикотаж ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. навоз, навозная жижа 2. перегной, гумус 3. сл. грязь; дрянь, мерзость all in a muck —- весь в грязи, загаженный to make a muck of smth. —- испортить (изгадить, испоганить) что-л. to be in a muck of a sweat —- быть в испарине, взопреть to read muck —- читать макулатуру (дрянь); читать порнографию to eat muck —- есть всякую дрянь 4. с-х. отвал (земля) 5. горн. неубранная в выработке порода Id: muck for mugs —- сказки (байки) для дураков 6. унавоживать 7. чистить, убирать навоз to muck (out) a stable —- чистить конюшню 8. пачкать to muck one's hands —- испачкать руки 9. разг. (также muck up) испоганить to muck (up) a job —- испортить (изгадить) (все) дело 10. горн. убирать, откидывать породу 11. гнев to run a muck —- простореч. неистовствовать; яростно набрасываться на каждого встречного ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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about а) coll. слоняться; What have you been doing today? Oh, nothing, just mucking around. б) вносить беспорядок (with); Whos been mucking about with my papers? MUCK in делиться (с кем-л.) имуществом, жильем и т.п. MUCK out чистить (помещение, где располагаются животные); Part of your job with the horses will be to muck out the stables every morning. MUCK 1. noun 1) навоз 2) coll. грязь; дрянь, мерзость; - make a muck of 3) mining отбитая, неубранная порода 4) отвал, вытянутая земля 5) attr. навозный 2. v. 1) унавоживать 2) пачкать (тж. muck up); I got my boots mucked up in the garden. 3) coll. (ис)портить (тж. muck up); If John mucks up his driving test again, I doubt if hell ever pass it. 4) mining убирать, откидывать породу - muck about - muck in - muck out ...Англо-русский словарь
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- M.E., from O.N. myki, mykr "cow dung," from P.Gmc. *muk-, *meuk- "soft." Muckraker popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt, in allusion to character in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1684) who seeks worldly gain by raking filth. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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