Definitions for mucking

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mucking muck·ing

Spelling: [muhk-ing]

IPA: /ˈmʌk ɪŋ/

Mucking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in mucking (cgikmnu).

Definitions for mucking

noun

1. moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
2. a highly organic, dark or black soil, less than 50 percent combustible, often used as a manure.
3. mire; mud.
4. filth, dirt, or slime.
5. defamatory or sullying remarks.
6. a state of chaos or confusion:
7. Chiefly British Informal. something of no value; trash.
8. (especially in mining) earth, rock, or other useless matter to be removed in order to get out the mineral or other substances sought.

Verb phrases

1. muck about/around, Informal. to idle; waste time; loiter.

adjective, adverb

1. damned.

verb (used with object)

1. to manure.
2. to make dirty; soil.
3. to remove muck from (sometimes followed by out).
4. Informal. to ruin; bungle (often followed by up). to put into a state of complete confusion (often followed by up).

Origin of mucking

First recorded in 1595-1605; muck + -ing²

Examples for mucking

The drillers did most of the mucking out of the heading before setting up the drills.

Yes, you've taken to mucking your work—doing it in a most slovenly way.

Did you consult study any guides as you were mucking your way through?

We got the idea from the British Tommy, only he calls it "mucking it."

The Senate Finance Committee has rolled up its sleeves this week, and is mucking about in the fine print of amendments.

But what's the good of my mucking about in a filthy uniform?

"I don't mean to have any one else mucking around," growled Dunn in answer.

Roving and changing and mucking about in crowds—no; I was fed up with that when he sent me away to school.

His scapegoats then, as now, were the United States and Europe, which he blamed for mucking about in his backyard.

F—Time between completion of mucking and putting in first plate, spent in shoving the jacks back.