muckraking.html - v.intr. search out and reveal scandal, esp. among famous people.

muckraker n. muckraking n.

muckraking.html - v.intr. search out and reveal scandal, esp. among famous people.

muckraker n. muckraking n.

muckraking.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 farmyard manure.
2 colloq. dirt or filth; anything disgusting.
3 colloq. an untidy state; a mess.

--v.

tr.
1 (usu. foll. by up) Brit. colloq. bungle (a job).
2 (foll. by out) remove muck from.
3 make dirty.
4 manure with muck.

make a muck of colloq. bungle. muck about (or around) Brit. colloq.
1 potter or fool about.
2 (foll. by with) fool or interfere with. muck in Brit. (often foll. by with) share tasks etc. equally. muck sweat Brit. colloq. a profuse sweat. [ME muk prob. f. Scand.: cf. ON myki dung, rel. to MEEK]

muckraking.html - n.
sl.
1 a friend or companion.
2 US a rough or coarse person.
3 Brit. a heavy fall.

muckerish adj. (in senses 1 and 2). [prob. f. muck in: see MUCK]

muckraking.html - var. of MICKLE.

muckraking.html - v.intr. search out and reveal scandal, esp. among famous people.

muckraker n. muckraking n.