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mucky
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mucky has 2 senses
- mucky(s = adj.all) boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged - (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"
- mucky(s = adj.all) muddy - dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" Derived form noun muck1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mucky, a.
- Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. Spenser. [1913 Webster]"Mucky money and false felicity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mucky, adj. (muckier, muckiest)
1 covered with muck.
2 dirty.
1 covered with muck.
2 dirty.
Derivative
muckiness n.
THESAURUS
mucky
barfy, begrime, besoil, black, cloudy, crappy, dirty, disgusting, dungy, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, gloppy, grime, grubby, gunky, icky, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miry, muck, muddy, muggy, murk, nasty, nauseating, odious, oozy, ordurous, plashy, puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, sludgy, slushy, soft, soggy, sordid, splashy, sposhy, squalid, squashy, squelchy, squishy, sticky, sultry, turbid, unclean, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy
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