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💩 Wet dirt 🧹 To make dirty 🌱 To spread manure ⛏️ To remove waste
to muck

to muck

2 6.8
To remove dirt and waste from a mine or tunnel
  • verb
  • /mʌk/
translation icon : limpiar
  • Diego, our groom from Santo Domingo Pueblo, finishes mucking out the other stalls and stops to pet the foal.
  • muck out the stalls
  • muck out a barn

Examples

  • Muck out that stall, and then bring that horse on in and put him inside.

    The Derby Stallion (2005)

  • I've been mucking and raking for weeks without a boy.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • "I'll walk this boy around a bit while you muck out."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • " I'll muck out the stables if you'll just let me stay on."

    Blog text (18)

  • Craig, when you're finished here, you can muck out the stables.

    The Man from Snowy River (1982)

  • Muck out that stall.

    The Derby Stallion (2005)

  • At least a half mile behind us was Stable-Mart, the sorry excuse for a stable, where I had the royal job of mucking out stalls.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Dozens of grooms were at work, currying and combing, mucking out, mending tack.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • After the race, they had to muck out the stables to keep them clean.

  • Before the new horses arrive, we need to muck out all the stalls.

Synonyms

to muck out
vsto muck
3 6.5

To clean animal waste from a stable or pen

is about removing dirt or refuse in mines and similar sites
to scavenge
vsto muck
1 6.0

To clear rubbish from a place to keep it clean

is used for clearing dirt or waste especially from mines or similar places
to slop out
vsto muck
  • Informal
9.8

To empty dirty liquid or other waste from a container like a bucket

focuses on removing solid dirt and refuse from mines and similar places

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 Clean

to decontaminate
  • Specialized
9 7.0
to muck
2 6.8
to clean
∞ 1.0
to wipe
531 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

Muck has long meant wet dirt or waste, so to muck a mine or stable is to remove that loose 'muck' and clear the place.