(n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
(n.) Anything filthy or vile.
(n.) Money; -- in contempt.
(a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
(v. t.) To manure with muck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
(4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
(5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
(6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
(7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
(8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
(9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
(10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
(11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
(12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
(13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
(14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
(15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
(16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
(17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
(18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
(19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
(20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.
Tuck
Definition:
(n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
(n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
(n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
(n.) A pull; a lugging.
(n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
(n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
(n.) The beat of a drum.
(v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
(v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
(v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.
(v. t.) To full, as cloth.
(v. i.) To contract; to draw together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(2) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(4) Iris tucking of at least one lens foot was noted in 28% of the cases.
(5) Tuck has been head here for 15 years and tells me at least a dozen times how happy she has been.
(6) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(7) 8.23pm GMT "It's now time for you lucky lot to tuck into your dinners" - you know what that means?
(8) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(9) 3.54am GMT 74 mins Zemanski will tuck into midfield and help keep an eye on Rosales.
(10) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
(11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(12) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(13) Whereas I always curiously seem to always be here in the office merely reporting the fact that celebrities are tucking into ... well, to be honest, I’ve no idea what the hell this is.
(14) It's not enough for arts to be tucked away in the 20% of time that's left in the curriculum."
(15) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(16) Lukaku was not to be denied, heading home an Arouna Koné cross in the 22nd minute and tucking in Ross Barkley’s exquisite pass on the stroke of half-time.
(17) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
(18) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(19) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.