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What (who) is muck around - definition
SOIL TYPE
Muck (agriculture); Muck farming; Muckland; Muck (soil); Sapric histosol
muck around
1.
If you muck around or muck about, you behave in a childish or silly way, often so that you waste your time and fail to achieve anything. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
We do not want people of his age mucking around risking people's lives...
He'd spent his boyhood summers mucking about in boats...
= mess about
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P prep/adv
2.
If you muck around with or muck about with something, you alter it, often making it worse than it was. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
The president's wife doesn't muck around with policy or sit in on Cabinet meetings.
= mess around
PHRASAL VERB: V P with n
3.
If you muck someone around or muck them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them or by continually changing plans which affect them. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
He does not tolerate anyone who mucks him about.
= mess about
PHRASAL VERB: V n P
Grassland & Muck
![A [[Lite-Trac]] Agri-Spread lime and fertilizer spreader at Grassland & Muck 2011](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lite-trac Spreader.jpg?width=200 "A [[Lite-Trac]] Agri-Spread lime and fertilizer spreader at Grassland & Muck 2011")
Grassland and muck; Grassland muck; Grassland and Muck
Grassland & Muck is a triennial event for the industry which takes place in the United Kingdom.Grassland & Muck 2014 McHale events.
Karl Muck
 - NARA - 31477878.jpg?width=200 "Arrest of Karl Muck.")
![Vanity Fair]], 1899](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl Muck Vanity Fair 27 July 1899.jpg?width=200 "Vanity Fair]], 1899")
GERMAN-BORN SWISS CONDUCTOR OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
Carl Muck
Karl Muck (October 22, 1859 – March 3, 1940) was a German-born conductor of Classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera.
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Sapric
A sapric is a subtype of a histosol where virtually all of the organic material has undergone sufficient decomposition to prevent the identification of plant parts. Muck is a sapric soil that is naturally waterlogged or is artificially drained.
Examples of use of muck around
1. Being a true wine bar, Vinosyr doesn‘t muck around with food.
2. "With all the attention given this, I‘m confident that someone would notice if anyone tried to muck around with it," she said.
3. Out on the road that Edwards –– now serving a federal prison term on corruption charges –– opened up for Hackberry, Ernest Westlund plunged his hands into the flooded muck around his now–despicable home.
4. On June 7 the three Republican appointees on the five–member board that regulates employer–employee relations in the United States handed down a remarkable ruling that expands the rights of employers to muck around in their workers‘ lives when they‘re off the job.
5. I couldn‘t have taken that so I probably would have overdosed.‘ Is that what drives Brand – death, fear of, thoughts of? ‘This is the context in which we all live,‘ he says. ‘I‘m aware we‘re not here long, so I don‘t want to muck around.‘ Does he feel he‘s wasted enough time already with the drugs? ‘Yes, but I had no choice.‘ Brand points out that his mother nearly died three times. ‘You‘ve only got yourself haven‘t you?