- present participle of muck.
mucking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of mucking
Example Sentences
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"I liked her because if you asked her a question, you'd get an answer - no mucking about."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The wild card in the movie, and one whose fierce devotion to mucking things up isn’t well explained, is Barry Keoghan as a motorbike-riding blond agent of chaos, Ormon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
“People should prepare for really the worst-case scenario,” Kittell said, where heavy rainfall could send mud and debris sliding off hillsides, mucking up roads and possibly colliding into homes and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
And that means finding a problem, guessing how it can be answered or solved, and then mucking around.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
“There’s a system, you know. Just give them here, you’re mucking everything up!”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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