mucky

[muhk-ee]

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.

ˈmucky

/ ˈmʌkɪ /

adjective

1. dirty

2. of or like muck

Other Word Forms

• muckily adverb
• muckiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ˈmucky¹

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

Example Sentences

Now the water had become "mucky and cloudy" and "you can see build-ups of foam in a number of spots".

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I waded a long way out, til the bottom grew mucky and seaweed tickled my legs, then submerged.

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A digger tucked into the dumped piles and loaded a trailer, which was then pulled across a vast expanse of mucky wet ground by a tractor.

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But I wonder how many other 23-year-olds get up every day at five in the morning for the mucky, and vital, job of milking?

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In “New Heraldry,” Seattle artist Sara Osebold imagines a new world after “total collapse,” through canvas drawings and clay sculptures imprinted with mysterious, textlike symbols and ceramic fragments found in mucky Seattle creek beds.

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