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How to pronounce muck in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms mire, muck up, mud
Type of grime, soil, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty


The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden.
Type Words
Synonyms goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge
Type of matter
Has types sapropel
Derivation mucky
Type Words
Synonyms droppings, dung
Type of feces, ordure, bm, stool, dejection, faeces, faecal matter, fecal matter
Has types pigeon droppings, buffalo chip, chip, coprolite, cow chip, cow dung, cow pie, cowpie
Type Words
Synonyms manure
Type of spread out, spread, scatter
Type Words
Type of withdraw, remove, take away, take

Examples of muck

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Muck expects that 50 percent of the uses will be found to have been unjustified.
From the stltoday.com
He wondered if he would be able to see the nativity scene through all this muck.
From the kansas.com
The muck is placed in windrows then turned mechanically for two or three months.
From the kentucky.com
When the vehicle got stuck in the muck, the employee followed up with a backhoe.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Rivulets of ice formed in the muck of the road and made the walking treacherous.
From the nytimes.com
With this sort of muck raking from Winnie, anyone would think Jenny is a Muslim.
From the nbr.co.nz
The IRB doesn't muck about when it comes to the rankings-related World Cup draw.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Driving past the creek and having all the mud and muck was a blight on the city.
From the heraldtribune.com
The victor, though, should emerge from the muck in the middle of the conference.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
  • Sludge: any thick, viscous matter
  • Droppings: fecal matter of animals
  • Manure: spread manure, as for fertilization
  • Mire: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
  • TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. ...
  • Muck in gambling has multiple meanings. In poker, it most often refers to the pile of discarded cards into which players may throw their folded hands, and into which the dealer may place burned cards. It may also refer to the action of throwing a hand into the muck. ...
  • Muck (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean nam Muc, pronouncedu00A0) is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4.0u00A0km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mu00F2r. The other settlement on the island is the farm at Gallanach. The island's only road, about 2.5 kilometres (1...
  • Muck is a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland. It is known as black soil in The Fens of eastern England, where it was originally mainly fen and bog. It is used there, as in the United States, for growing specialty crops such as onions, carrots, celery, and potatoes.