muck sb/sth about/around
mainly UK informal— phrasal verb with muck uk/mʌk/us/mʌk/verb
to behave in a silly way, or to treat someone or something in a careless way:
Stop mucking about with those ornaments, you'll break something!
I'm fed up with them mucking me about and cancelling our arrangements.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- mess around
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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