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Definition of Muck up
1. Verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Ballup, Botch, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungle, Bungler, Flub, Fluff, Foul-up, Fuckup, Fumbler, Mess-up, Screwup, Spoil, Spoilage, Spoiling
2. Verb. Soil with mud, muck, or mire. "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
Generic synonyms: Begrime, Bemire, Colly, Dirty, Grime, Soil
Derivative terms: Mire, Muck, Mud
Definition of Muck up
1. Verb. (transitive) To ruin unintentionally. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To clown around; to have fun, often at the expense of others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muck Up
Literary usage of Muck up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"muck up, i'.—To cover with dirt. I never seed ,1 place so mucked up. They muck
the house up, going in and out. Liz, you muck me up; ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"MUCK OUT, r.—To clean, or carry out dung: as "I've mucked out the pig-stye mysen."
muck up, r.—To cover with dirt. ,- I never seed a place so mucked up. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"Muck spoot [muok-spoo't], a term applied to a dirty-person, or one who uses filthy
language; a general term of reproach or contempt. Muck-up [muok-uop], ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"Muck spoot [muok-spoo't], a term applied to a dirty-person, or one who uses filthy
language; a general term of reproach or contempt. Muck-up [muok-uop], ..."
5. Our Farming: Or, How We Have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure by Theodore Brainard Terry (1893)
"One man who was born and brought up on the old farm, Mr. Ranson Sanford, said
that many years before they dug a ditch and drew the muck up and put on a spot ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... barricaded with logs, bristling with stumps, full of mossy trap-doors, which
let down the legs in a squashy muck, up to the very thighs. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"muck up, i'.—To cover with dirt. I never seed ,1 place so mucked up. They muck
the house up, going in and out. Liz, you muck me up; ..."
8. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"MUCK OUT, r.—To clean, or carry out dung: as "I've mucked out the pig-stye mysen."
muck up, r.—To cover with dirt. ,- I never seed a place so mucked up. ..."
9. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"Muck spoot [muok-spoo't], a term applied to a dirty-person, or one who uses filthy
language; a general term of reproach or contempt. Muck-up [muok-uop], ..."
10. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"Muck spoot [muok-spoo't], a term applied to a dirty-person, or one who uses filthy
language; a general term of reproach or contempt. Muck-up [muok-uop], ..."
11. Our Farming: Or, How We Have Made a Run-down Farm Bring Both Profit and Pleasure by Theodore Brainard Terry (1893)
"One man who was born and brought up on the old farm, Mr. Ranson Sanford, said
that many years before they dug a ditch and drew the muck up and put on a spot ..."
12. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... barricaded with logs, bristling with stumps, full of mossy trap-doors, which
let down the legs in a squashy muck, up to the very thighs. ..."
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