muck

Word family

Related topics: Agriculture, Gardening

muck1 /mʌk/ noun [uncountableU] informal

1 DIRTYdirt, mud, or another sticky substance that makes something dirty 污物，污秽

Come on, let’s wipe that muck off your face.

过来，我们把你脸上的那个脏东西擦掉。

2 British EnglishBrETADLG waste matter from animals, sometimes put on land to make plants grow better 粪便，粪肥 SYN manure

special machinery for spreading muck onto the fields

向田里撒肥的特殊机器

dog muck

狗屎

3 BAD British EnglishBrE something that is unpleasant or of very bad quality 令人讨厌的东西；劣质的东西

How can you eat that muck? It looks disgusting.

你怎么能吃那玩意？看着就恶心。

I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck (=very badly).

她走了我并不吃惊，他对她很不好。

4 make a muck of something British EnglishBrE informal to do something very badly and make a lot of mistakes 把…弄糟 SYN muck up

I really made a muck of the exam.

我考试考得一塌糊涂。

5. as common as muck British EnglishBrE informalINSULTCLASS IN SOCIETY very common or of a low social class 极其普通的；低下阶层出身的

Examples from the Corpus

muck• What else is there to say about muck, glorious muck?• Soft as muck! - Half of them have quit already. - Because he only wants the land, see.• His hands and fingernails were filthy, his face and legs covered in muck.• But investigators believe the still-lost cockpit recorder either lost its pinger or it has been silenced by being socked in muck.• Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field, or on to a muck trailer in the yard?• Clean out the leaves and other muck from your house gutters.• You'd get your good barley and the muck would go behind the screens.• I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen and wing mirrors.• Eventually some one will emerge from the muck, the rusty mayoral crown askew on a weary head.• Their suggestions and alternatives might just drag your writing deep into the muck of tired language.• He sometimes gets his shoes soiled in trying to stay out of the muck.

muck2 verb PHRASAL VERBS

Examples from the Corpus

muck• And, as any football-mad kid knows, there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season's kit.• To McDonough, a stubby 280-pounder, the charm of elective office was not mucking about with papers and figures.• You can come up and let yourself go - shout about and that and muck about.• How long will it take if we all muck in?• And the old caretaker lives next door, so he feeds them and mucks out.• Each does his own mucking out.• Her house, she says, is being renovated and it's mucking up her schedule.• He was taking no chances on having too many deaths to muck up his statistics.

Origin muck1

(1200-1300) Probably from a Scandinavian language

muck1 nounmuck2 verb →PHRASAL VERBS1

Chinese

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