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mucky

American  
[muhk-ee] / ˈmʌk i /

adjective

muckier, muckiest
  1. of or like muck.

  2. filthy, dirty, or slimy.

  3. British Informal.

    1. obscene.

      a mucky story.

    2. nasty; mean or contemptible.

      a mucky trick.

    3. (of weather) oppressively humid.


mucky British  
/ ˈmʌkɪ /

adjective

  1. dirty

  2. of or like muck

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of mucky

First recorded in 1530–40; muck + -y 1


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Soon after completion of the work, the coating began to peel off and algae turned the pool's water a mucky green -- setbacks the president has blamed on vandals, without providing evidence.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Mr. Paré-Poupart is in his element when describing the men with whom he’s worked, misfits all yet high-functioning pros in the mucky métier they’ve chosen for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The trees won’t take in wetlands, in mucky soils.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

In PowerWash Simulator's case that means cleaning through one mucky area - say, a fun house or a roller disco - after another; quite literally rinse and repeat.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Her hand fumbled along the mucky sheet until it found the small book of Psalms I had dropped.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Just don’t bring the muckier parts of it inside to build up and contaminate our homes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022

After growing up in the gloomy North and slogging through Westeros’s muckier precincts with the Hound, she arrived in summery Braavos like a little bloodthirsty Mary Richards, thrilling in her newfound freedom.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2015

I want to see the muckiest film advertised.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013

The 589 is lightweight, which means it steers easily and doesn't put as much strain on your quad's drivetrain, and it really eats up the muckiest of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

This six-ply tire has a unique tread design that's made to last and last while chomping away at the muckiest of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Come silence, like a fainting fit—the thickest, muckiest silence I ever heard.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips

He carried bark and filled all the muckiest places of the trail.

From Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

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