muck about

Verb

Meaning

do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

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Synonyms

mess around muck around potter tinker putter monkey fool around play around mess about monkey around fool about dally doodle twiddle dawdle
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Antonyms

act behave bear oneself behave oneself be good apply oneself hard on
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Hypernyms

work

Hyponyms

puddle

Examples

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much. Eddie Campbell

The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house Source: Internet

Dilettante meant I could muck about in anything I felt like and adventuress meant I certainly wasn’t the kind of woman you’d take home to mother. Source: Internet

Get the freshest ingredients you can, don’t overly muck about with it, and the results will be more than satisfying. Source: Internet

The children mustn't squabble, the pig mustn't muck about, etc. And in the end, they all collapse and do what they mustn't; they capsize the boat - and he invites everyone back for tea and says they should come again. Source: Internet

Starting with the 1.64 release, you don’t have to muck about in the terminal and configuration files. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mucivore mucivorous muck muck and bullets muck around muck fly