de-muck

English

Etymology

de- +‎ muck

Verb

de-muck (third-person singular simple present de-mucks, present participle de-mucking, simple past and past participle de-mucked)

1. To remove muck or dirt from.
   • 1990, Kay Whitehouse, Site Selection: Finding and Developing Your Best Location, Liberty House, →ISBN, page 97:

     Fill, grading, removing boulders, de-mucking and any other preparation needed on the site can be a nightmare of costs.

   • 1994, Abby Frucht, Licorice, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 142:

     Our squirrel.

     Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it.

Translations

to remove muck or dirt from

Anagrams

• mucked