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to muck

to muck

2 7.9
To spread manure on land to help plants grow
  • verb
  • /mʌk/
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  • In early spring, it's time to muck the garden to prepare it for new plants.

Examples

  • The crew will muck the land to ensure it is fertile for the coming growing season.

  • There hadn't been much to do but ride or muck out pig shit.

    Blog text (30)

  • Take 'em home and spread 'em wherever the cat is mucking up your yard or garden.

    Blog text (25)

  • "Mucking out stalls matters to you?" The snap in his voice warned her.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Muck out stables or clean tack.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I muck out his stall when he's at Three Wil- p92 lows, so I feel some part of responsibility for the victory.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • But Dusty had a pitchfork for mucking out the ponies' corral.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Inside the barn, stableboys were busy mucking out, so the air was perfumed with the smells of manure, hay, and mud.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • They hauled enough hay for a siege, broke the ice in the water buckets with axes, and mucked the stalls.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Before planting crops, farmers often muck the fields with nutrient-rich manure.

Synonyms

to manure
vsto muck
1 4.8

To spread animal or plant waste on soil to help plants grow

has identical meaning but uses a different word form
to topdress
vsto muck
  • Specialized
8.4

To spread a thin layer of fertilizer or compost over the ground

spreads material to fertilize rather than only scattering on the surface

Idioms

stuck in the muck
  • Informal
8.9

Not able to move forward because of a messy, difficult situation

Phrasal Verbs

to muck up
  • Informal
5 7.6

To ruin something by making mistakes or doing it badly

to muck out
3 6.5

To clean animal waste from a stable or pen

to muck around
  • UK
3 8.4

To spend time doing not important things in a relaxed way

to muck about
  • UK
1 8.7

To spend time doing things that are not important

to muck up
  • Informal
6.7

To make something dirty with mud or dirt

Compounds

muckety muck
  • Slang
4 9.9

An important, powerful person who is usually wealthy

high-muck-a-muck
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who acts very important and looks down on others

foreign muck
  • Offensive
9.9

Dirt or waste from another place that people dislike

How Fertilizing

to muck
2 7.9
to fertilize
  • US
12 3.4
to spread
664 1.6
to sprinkle
100 1.1

Surface Forms

muck infinitive
mucked past
mucked past participle
mucking present participle
mucks third person singular

Etymology

Muck originally meant 'dung' used on farms, so to muck a field is to spread that 'muck' as manure to help the crops grow.