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ˈmuck-up slang.
[f. phr. to muck up (muck v. 4).]
A mixing or confusing; a confused situation; a blunder, a fiasco, a mess, a muddle; Austral. (see quot. 1945).
1930Daily Express 9 Sept. 8/7 The muck-up of society..is almost complete. 1934N. Marsh Man lay Dead xii. 217 Only Bathgate's prints on the electric switch and a muck-up of everybody's on the bannister. 1939N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom i. i. 33 The muck-up the Labour people had left us in, in 1931. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 209 You seem to have made a pretty good muck-up. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xv. 267 Frigg-up or muck-up, a confusion, a row or argument. 1957W. Camp Prospects of Love iii. iii. 159 Mummy..making me do beastly shorthand in case I make a muck-up of the Latin. 1963B. James Austral. Short Stories 46 The ‘muck-up’ in 4B died down at this announcement. 1967K. Giles Death & Mr Prettyman iii. 72 Old Jabeez made his usual muck-up. 1972C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 60 The food was probably fry-ups or nasty little continental muck-ups. |