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


Etymology

Adjective

mucky (comparative muckier, superlative muckiest)

(colloquial) Covered in muck.

(colloquial) Obscene, pornographic.

Synonyms

• (covered in muck): dirty, filthy, muddy; see also unclean

• (obscene): adult, blue, X-rated; see also obscene or pornographic

Source: Wiktionary


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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