- present participle of muck.
mucking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of mucking
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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
Her parents had said they were all "mucking about" and throwing grapes at each other in the kitchen while Ms Hall was making spaghetti Bolognese.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
“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
My first thought was he was a kid from the village, just mucking about.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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