muck
US: /ˈmək/
UK: /mˈʌk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
muck /mʌk/- danh từ
- phân chuồng
- (thông tục) rác rưởi; đồ ô uế, đồ nhớp nhúa, đồ kinh tởm
- (thông tục) tình trạng bẩn tưởi
- ti be all a muck; to be in a muck: bẩn tưởi
- tạp chất (ở quặng)
- to be all of a muck of sweat
- nhớp nháp mồ hôi, đẫm mồ hôi
- to make a muck of
- làm bẩn, làm nhơ, làm hỏng
- ngoại động từ
- làm bẩn, làm nhơ
- to muck one's hands: làm bẩn tay
- (thông tục) (+ up) làm hư, làm hỏng, phá rối
- to muck up one's aải: làm hỏng việc, làm rối việc
- lấy hết tạp chất (ở quặng)
- làm bẩn, làm nhơ
- nội động từ (từ lóng)
- (+ about) đi lêu lổng
- làm những việc vô ích
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 waste matter from farm animals
Synonym: MANURE
to spread muck on the fields
2 (informal, especially BrE) dirt or mud: My face and hands were covered in muck. + Can you wipe the muck off the windows?
3 (informal, especially BrE) something very unpleasant: I can't eat this muck!
Idioms: where there's muck there's brass (BrE, saying) used to say that sb has made a lot of money from an unpleasant or dirty business activity
verb
Phrasal Verbs: muck about / around (BrE, informal) to behave in a silly way, especially when you should be working or doing sth else
Synonym: MESS ABOUT / AROUND
I spent most of my time at school mucking about and getting into trouble.
muck about / around with sth (BrE, informal, disapproving) to do sth, especially to a machine, so that it does not work correctly
Synonym: MESS ABOUT / AROUND
Who's mucking around with my radio?
muck sb about / around (BrE, informal) to treat sb badly, especially by changing your mind a lot, or by not being honest
Synonym: MESS SB ABOUT / AROUND
They've really mucked us about over our car insurance.
muck in (BrE, informal)
1 to work with other people in order to complete a task: If we all muck in, we could have the job finished by the end of the week.
2 to share food, accommodation etc. with other people: We didn't have much money, but everyone just mucked in together.
muck out
muck sth<->out to clean out the place where an animal lives: Part of her job was to muck out the stables.
muck sth<->up (informal, especially BrE)
1 to do sth badly so that you fail to achieve what you wanted or hoped to achieve
Synonym: MESS STH UP
He completely mucked up his English exam.
2 to spoil a plan or an arrangement
Synonym: MESS STH UP
3 to make sth dirty: I don't want you mucking up my nice clean floor.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 ordure, manure, dung, excrement, faeces, droppings; guano:
The muck is saved for use as fertilizer.
2 dirt, filth, bilge, slime, sludge, ooze, scum, sewage, mire, mud, feculence, Colloq gunge, gunk, US grunge:
Give me a chance to get the muck off my shoes.
v.
3 muck about. fool around, waste time, idle, loiter, mess around or about:
She told me to stop mucking about and get a job.
4 muck up. ruin, wreck, destroy, make a mess of, botch, mess up, bungle, Colloq screw up, Slang bugger up, make a muck of:
She's mucked up her own life, and, given the chance, she'll muck up mine.
Concise dictionary
mucks|mucked|muckingmʌknoun
+any thick messy substance
+fecal matter of animals
verb
+remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
+spread manure, as for fertilization
+soil with mud, muck, or mire
