British Slang: Muck About

Muck About:

To waste time, fool around, mess about, dawdle, or trifle with someone.

Examples:

Stop mucking about and get on with your work!

Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it.

It was only a joke. We were only mucking about.

Meaning from the English-Bulgarian Dictionary:

Muck [mʌk]:

• Animal manure.
• informal Filth, rubbish (also figurative), something nasty or unpleasant, mess.
• Slander.
• Mud.
• US mining Extracted soil, broken rock.
• To manure, fertilize.
• To soil, dirty, make unclean.
• US mining To clear rock.
• To clear, remove manure/rubbish.

About [ə'baut]:

• Around, in a circle, here and there, everywhere.
• Approximately, almost, roughly.
• Backward, in reverse.
• Near, by.
• For, concerning, about.
• Through, about.
• In, at, with.
• Around, approximately, toward.

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