mucky
of or like muck.
filthy, dirty, or slimy.
British Informal.
obscene: a mucky story.
nasty; mean or contemptible: a mucky trick.
(of weather) oppressively humid.
Origin of mucky
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How to use mucky in a sentence
It’s a mucky mudflat that’s surrounded by apartment complexes and the adjacent Campland RV park.
Morning Report: Mission Bay’s Million-Dollar Mud | Voice of San Diego | October 27, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe insect likely fell into one of the ancient lakes that covered this region and sank into the soft, mucky bottom.
Feast your eyes on this 50-million-year-old assassin bug and its exquisite genitalia | Kate Baggaley | January 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe terrain is mucky, and the pickings are slim; patience and boredom are a part of the hunt.
When I seen she had it figgered out I was in a quest fur some high-mucky-muck fur a dad, I didn't tell her no different.
Danny's Own Story | Don MarquisBut Grundy's covered it all up and hidden it and put mucky shades and covers over it until he's forgotten it.
Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells
Anyway, not mucky stories about a handsome stranger coming along just because a girl's car busts down.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonTrees, for the orchard, should never be grown upon a mucky or peaty soil.
American Pomology | J. A. WarderThe air was nauseous with the dank mucky odour that cooked out of the mangrove swamp.
Jerry of the Islands | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for mucky
/ (ˈmʌkɪ) /
dirty
of or like muck
Derived forms of mucky
- muckily, adverb
- muckiness, noun
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