verb (present participle/gerund)
mexendo em sujeira; limpando esterco; mexendo; bagunçando
1. The act of removing muck (dirt, mud, or manure) from a place, especially from animal enclosures
She spent the morning mucking out the horse stalls.
Ela passou a manhã limpando os estábulos dos cavalos.
2. To make something dirty or messy; to soil with muck
Stop mucking up the carpet with your muddy boots!
Pare de sujar o tapete com suas botas enlameadas!
3. To interfere with or tamper with something; to meddle
Don't go mucking around with the settings on my computer.
Não fique mexendo nas configurações do meu computador.
4. To engage in mucking about; to waste time or engage in foolish behavior
The kids were mucking about in the backyard all afternoon.
As crianças ficaram brincando no quintal a tarde toda.
In American English, 'mucking' is commonly used in farm and rural contexts to describe cleaning animal stables. In informal speech, 'mucking about/around' is a British and Australian expression meaning to waste time or engage in playful, pointless activity. In Portugal and Brazil, the agricultural sense is preserved while the informal sense of 'fooling around' is also widely understood.
NYC Slang
messin' around; messing with; mucking it up
Related Idioms & Phrases
mucking about - wasting time or engaging in aimless activity
mucking out - cleaning animal enclosures
muck something up - ruining or spoiling something
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