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Muck Up

Definition: Muck Up

Muck Up

Verb

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

2. Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Muck Up

Synonyms: ball up (v), blow (v), bobble (v), bollix (v), bollix up (v), bollocks (v), bollocks up (v), botch (v), botch up (v), bumble (v), bungle (v), flub (v), fluff (v), foul up (v), fuck up (v), fumble (v), louse up (v), mess up (v), mire (v), mishandle (v), muck (v), mud (v), muff (v), screw up (v), spoil (v). (additional references)

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Expression: Muck Up

Expression using "muck up": muck up a job. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Muck Up

Language Translations for "muck up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

zmrvit (foul up, louse up), zmrtvit. (various references)

   

French

  

semer la pagaïe dans, gâchis. (various references)

   

German

  

verschusseln (forget, mess up, mislay), verpfuschen (botch, bungle, fault, hash up, mess up, ruin, spoil, to botch, to bungle), vermasseln (botch, bungle, fluff, foozle, goof, hash up, louse up, make a mess, mess up, muddle, muff, queer, ruin, screw up, to bungle, to foozle), verkorksen (make a mess of, mess up, ruin, upset, wreck), dreckig machen. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellő (to muck, to muck up, to shoot away), elkúr (to cock up, to crap sg up, to muck, to muck up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uckmay upay.(various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muff, murder, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate, wrack). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fiasko (dud, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flivver, flop, frost, muck-up, washout). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้เสียไปโ"ยประมาท (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

işi berbat etmek (muck up a job). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Muck Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-k-m-p-u-u"

-2 letters: muck, puck.

-3 letters: cum, cup, ump.

-4 letters: mu, um, up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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