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PRONUNCIATION OF MUCK-UP

muck-up  [ˈmʌkˌʌp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUCK-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Muck-Up is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MUCK-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of muck-up in the English dictionary

The definition of muck-up in the dictionary is a bungle; something that has gone wrong in some way.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUCK-UP


break-up
ˈbreɪkˌʌp
bunk-up
ˈbʌŋkˌʌp
checkup
ˈtʃɛkˌʌp
cockup
ˈkɒkˌʌp
crack-up
ˈkrækˌʌp
fuck-up
ˈfʌkˌʌp
fuckup
ˈfʌkˌʌp
jack-up
ˈdʒækˌʌp
kick-up
ˈkɪkˌʌp
knock-up
ˈnɒkˌʌp
linkup
ˈlɪŋkˌʌp
lockup
ˈlɒkˌʌp
look-up
ˈlʊkˌʌp
shakeup
ˈʃeɪkˌʌp
sneakeup
ˈsniːkˌʌp
stack-up
ˈstækˌʌp
take-up
ˈteɪkˌʌp
workup
ˈwɜːkˌʌp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUCK-UP

muck
muck about
muck heap
muck in
muck soil
muck up
muck-raking
muck-up day
muckamuck
muckender
mucker
muckerish
muckier
muckiest
muckily
muckiness
muckle
muckrake
muckraker
muckspread

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUCK-UP

crystal pick-up
hook-up
lock-up
magnetic pick-up
mark-up
mock-up
pick-up
satellite link-up
shook-up
stick-up
stuck-up
walk-up

Synonyms and antonyms of muck-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «muck-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUCK-UP

Find out the translation of muck-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of muck-up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «muck-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

渣土向上
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

muck-up
570 millions of speakers

English

muck-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गंदगी अप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وحل المتابعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гадость - до
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

muck -up
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপ গোবর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gâchis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Muck-up
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Muck -up
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

泥アップ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

추문 업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Muck-up
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chuồng -up
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேற்றை அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मस्क अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gübre-up
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

muck - up
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

syf -up
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гидота -до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muck - up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απορρίματα - up
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

muck -up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

muck - up
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

muck -up
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of muck-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUCK-UP»

The term «muck-up» is regularly used and occupies the 72.212 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUCK-UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about muck-up

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUCK-UP»

Discover the use of muck-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to muck-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dear Asshole: 101 Tear-Out Letters to the Morons Who Muck Up ...
"Dear Asshole" includes 101 letters to all of the assholes readers encounter on a daily basis, each letter conveniently perforated so they can tear it out and give it to the desired offender.
Jillian Madison, Michelle Madison, 2011
2
Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
Digital Artist's Handbook Jeremy Sutton. 'MUCK UP' V1 _l < |_ 2 Lu 2 < o z : Llt9 2 |_ z < O. 00 a: I-IJ |_ O. < :i: u I like to sully the paper, to get into it and make a bit of a mess and get going. —Jim Dines ...
Jeremy Sutton, 2005
3
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See Moke Train. muck-up, n. A complete failure; confusion or muddle: coll.: since late C.19. Ex next, 2. muck up, v. To litter: late C.19-—20: (low) coll. Mrs Caffyn, ' Mucking up my rooms' (OED).——2. To spoil, ruin, e.g. a person but esp. a plan: ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
4
Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... 9 glutenous, glutinous; 10 albuminous, gelatinous muck: 3 goo, mud; 4 dung, gook, guck, gunk, mire, ooze, silt; 5 slime, slosh, slush; 6 manure, muck up, sludge; 8 alluvium, quagmire; 9 droppings muckraker: 10 mudslinger muck up: 3 mud; ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
5
Painter 11 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
I refer to this abstract early stage of the painting process as the “muck up” stage to convey that it doesn't have to look pretty and that it is created rapidly with looseness and flow. The “muck up” stage should be able to stand alone as an abstract, ...
Jeremy Sutton, 2013
6
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put ...
Of course, lawyers can “muck up the works” in all areas of law (disclosure: one of us teaches law students the art of “Mucking Up Patent Litigation”; however, he covers both plaintiff- and defendantrelated mucking). But Mr. Jerome makes a ...
James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer, 2009
7
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
[\'I'H'. Econ. (1788); eJIks.l n1.\'ks.l To ' muck up." is to clean up. Go and muck the pantry out a bit. I's mucking down. \thre there's many there's muck, and l'm going to muck aftcr nobody. w.Yks. Iz getan iz-sen into a mes, an am nuan ban to mnk ...
Joseph Wright
8
Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
The goal of a “muck up” underpainting is to capture the raw energy, mood and movement of your composition. The muck up should be able to stand alone as an abstract, even while being loosely based on a photo. Treat this stage as providing ...
Jeremy Sutton, 2007
9
Cassell英语常用词组用法词典
to muck in [nj[H|$IA£ (It won't take long if everyone mucks in. t\\ tomuckoutfmiji&(^ $3) ; ifimmz (They muck out the pigsty every evening. to muck up 1. ffi •••#W2.*B - J*IIL i #ffif (The capricious weather has completely mucked up our plan.
Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
10
Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction
That's how she tried to get out of it. A She brags about everything— you can't take her seriously. Well, that's neither here nor there. How's the little muck-up? Everything straightened out? • What little muck-up? A You know, Okama-san, over at ...
Robert W. Leutner, 1985

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUCK-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term muck-up is used in the context of the following news items.
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School tax bill a deal-breaker
The real villain in the muck-up was the education tax, which should not be levied on property owners. And that is a fight Mr. Wyatt, and the rest ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
2
Johnson: Long week of waiting for redemption finally over for Stamps
Having been spared involvement in the Muck-Up in Montreal, Simpson was able to critique the goings-on from a different, distanced ... «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
3
Post Mandur, waste heaps up at Terra Firma landfill
For the past few years, there's been a muck-up of the garbage crisis. The administration has been running from one landfill to another to dump ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
CommSec end of financial year series: Australian sharemarket3:25
Forget the international gloom — today is muck-up day in Australia. ... It's called muck-up day because it's like the last day of school for some ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
5
Mukherjee muck-up
Mukherjee muck-up. He's been chair of the Police Services Board for a decade, so you could say it was time for him to go. But Mayor John Tory, ... «NOW Magazine, Jun 15»
6
JCoSS sent pupils home early over muck-up day concern
JCoSS placed its students on early study leave last week to avoid potential misbehaviour arising from a pre-GCSE “muck-up” day. Around 120 ... «Jewish Chronicle, May 15»
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Hundreds of pupils sent home from Jewish school after 'muck-up
Police were called and more than 300 London students were sent home from Europe's biggest Jewish school after a pre-GCSE “muck-up” day ... «Evening Standard, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Muck-Up [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/muck-up-1>. May 2024 ».
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