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# muck

«muck» in Mova's school dictionary: **dirt, mud or something wet and dirty** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (muck, uncountable); verb (muck, mucks, mucked, mucking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Muck is dirt, mud or something wet and dirty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#m1)

2) Muck is animal dung (poo), often spread on fields as manure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#m2)

3) (UK, informal) Muck about/around means to behave in a silly way and waste time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#m3)

4) (UK, informal) Muck up means to spoil or do something badly; muck in means to help with the work; muck out means to clean an animal's stable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

On farms and in nature: muck in the farmyard, mucking out the pony. At home: «Take off your boots, they're covered in muck!» In school (UK): «Stop mucking about!» It is an informal, everyday word.

### examples

- Your trainers are covered in muck! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x1)
- The farmer spread muck on the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x2)
- We took turns to muck out the stables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x3)
- Stop mucking about and finish your work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x4)
- I mucked up my spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x5)
- Everyone mucked in to tidy the hall after the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x6)
- Wipe the muck off the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x7)
- There you will find a sorry colt rolling in the muck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/#x8)

### note

Informal, mostly UK and Ireland. Uncountable: «some muck». Adjective: mucky (dirty). Phrasal verbs with about/around/up/in/out each have their own meaning. Not rude, just casual.

### In the corpora

- [So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck becomes spring fertiliser, and the next year starts again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «muck» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muck/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.