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  • as infrig around
  • as intamper
  • as intinker

synonyms for muck about

  • bum around
  • diddle around
  • fool around
  • lounge around
  • waste time
  • meddle
  • tinker
  • busybody
  • change
  • cook
  • cut
  • damage
  • destroy
  • diversify
  • doctor
  • fool
  • interlope
  • interpose
  • intrude
  • irrigate
  • manipulate
  • plant
  • spike
  • vary
  • water
  • butt in
  • fiddle with
  • horn in
  • mess around with
  • monkey around
  • monkey with
  • phony up
  • poke nose into
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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to muck about, such as: bum around, diddle around, fool around, lounge around, and waste time.
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How to use muck about in a sentence

These stories by a round-about way, gathering in circumstantial detail as they travelled, had reached his sister.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Roly was inclined to wait for developments, but as the call to "muck-muck" was now heard on the shore, he also withdrew.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSON
A few carbine and musket shots, from the knoll and house, soon brought them to a halt, and sent them to the right-about.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUS
A commotion, a squeal, a thrashing-about near at hand caused both to turn suddenly.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITE
Even your dirty paper, Waldemar, wouldn't rake that kind of muck up after ten years.
AVERAGE JONESSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
They were soon broken in; for the yard being full of muck, Pablo took them into it and mounted them.
THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FORESTCAPTAIN MARRYAT
And must she run, despite the tears And prayers of eighteen hundred years,A-muck in Slavery's crusade?
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
I've seen the night when Brocken would be tame beside the pandemonium round-about.
THE ADVENTURES OF KATHLYNHAROLD MACGRATH
I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONT
He wuz very peart and sassy, and it was take-it-or-leave-it-and-be-plaguey- quick-about-it all the time.
SI KLEGG, BOOK 2 (OF 6)JOHN MCELROY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO MUCK ABOUT

  • bum around
  • diddle around
  • fool around
  • lounge around
  • muck about
  • waste time
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