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Definition of Muck about

1. Verb. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly. "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

Definition of Muck about

1. Verb. (intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To do somethings with a piece of equipment when you do not understand how it works. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) (British) To be playful; full of fun and high spirits ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muck About

Literary usage of Muck about

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Potash in the Greensands of New Jersey by George Rogers Mansfield (1922)
"The surface consists of a layer of muck about 2 feet deep. ... A deposit of un- decomposed plant remains and black muck about 1 foot thick the surface layer ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"Ther was muck-about a lot o' rats in the whate rick as us took in to-daay." MUCK.—A perspiration. MUCKER.—A failure. ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1912)
"... and the steel plates laid on the floor are covered with a layer of muck about 4 in. thick to prevent deterioration. The bore-holes are then loaded and ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"To say that it is in sand less than 0.5 per cent, in clay about 10 per cent, in loam about 12 per cent, in humus about 14 per cent, and in muck about 20 per ..."

5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1867)
"Where it is not convenient to place rocks in this way, he piles muck about the same distance from the trees. He thinks that muck shot Id never be heaped up ..."

6. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1888)
"That was two years ago and I had no manure to put on so we covered it with muck, about fifty, perhaps sixty loads to the acre. We plowed it first of course, ..."

7. Potash in the Greensands of New Jersey by George Rogers Mansfield (1922)
"The surface consists of a layer of muck about 2 feet deep. ... A deposit of un- decomposed plant remains and black muck about 1 foot thick the surface layer ..."

8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"Ther was muck-about a lot o' rats in the whate rick as us took in to-daay." MUCK.—A perspiration. MUCKER.—A failure. ..."

9. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1912)
"... and the steel plates laid on the floor are covered with a layer of muck about 4 in. thick to prevent deterioration. The bore-holes are then loaded and ..."

10. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"To say that it is in sand less than 0.5 per cent, in clay about 10 per cent, in loam about 12 per cent, in humus about 14 per cent, and in muck about 20 per ..."

11. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1867)
"Where it is not convenient to place rocks in this way, he piles muck about the same distance from the trees. He thinks that muck shot Id never be heaped up ..."

12. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1888)
"That was two years ago and I had no manure to put on so we covered it with muck, about fifty, perhaps sixty loads to the acre. We plowed it first of course, ..."

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