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- verb Present participle of
muck .
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Examples
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There's surprisingly little regimentation, too - partly because our holiday "leader" is herself a National Trust volunteer, and partly because, by virtue of being here, we are all well disposed to the idea of mucking in.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I'll let you decide whether said "mucking" is a good thing, but needless to say, the theory is that last year's Autumnal Fire was more Oktoberfest than Dopplebock, while the "original" recipe was definitely more "dopple", more full-bodied and complex.
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I'll let you decide whether said "mucking" is a good thing, but needless to say, the theory is that last year's Autumnal Fire was more Oktoberfest than Dopplebock, while the "original" recipe was definitely more "dopple", more full-bodied and complex.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Ernest Hemingway substitutes 'mucking' in For Whom the Bell Tolls and lets the reader substitute it back.
The Eagle in the Sand, by Simon Scarrow. Book review Carla 2007
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ERROL LOUIS, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: I think the Democrats managed to find one of the few national politicians less popular than George Bush right now and there he was kind of mucking around.
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To her there was neither pleasure nor profit in "mucking" about in the damp fields, as she said, getting her feet wet, and spoiling her frock in stooping about after the flowers.
White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873
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They don't need unlicensed "mucking" up the band. written this paper about licensed uses that overlap unlicensed bands.
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They don't need unlicensed "mucking" up the band. written this paper about licensed uses that overlap unlicensed bands.
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They don't need unlicensed "mucking" up the band. written this paper about licensed uses that overlap unlicensed bands.
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-- mere senseless talk which they knew to be senseless, inasmuch as "mucking" about Fleet
Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889
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