In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MUCKIER
MUCKY
mucky, muddy
(adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; “muddy boots”; “a mucky stable”
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
muckier
comparative form of mucky
Source: Wiktionary
MUCKY
Muck"y, a.
1. Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." Spenser.
2. Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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