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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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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