Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or resembling muck; filthy; vile.
- To soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filthy with muck; miry.
- adjective obsolete Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective colloquial Covered in
muck . - adjective colloquial
Obscene ,pornographic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
- adjective dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
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Examples
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Their contents are therefore more of the "mucky" than of the "peaty" order, and this may partly account for New England usage in regard to these old English words.
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Certainly no disrespect in my assumption that "mucky" was a guy, as a matter of fact my favorite bloggers happen to be women, I simply had no idea.
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Certainly no disrespect in my assumption that "mucky" was a guy, as a matter of fact my favorite bloggers happen to be women, I simply had no idea.
WordPress.com News 2008
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2. Found a great place for hiking but abandoned it because it didn't seem "mucky" or "slooshy" enough.
Archive 2006-03-01 Jay 2006
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On one particular night -- at around 2 a.m., if his memory serves -- Brett Bishop's mucky, somnambulant job was transformed by a shimmer of revelation.
The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010
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And I love the mud-dripping sounds when Chicken Jane is “mucky and muddy!”
Between the Lions: Chicken Jane & the Big Flying Duck « General Literacy « Videos « Literacy News 2009
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These big mucky-mucks are going to go in and rouse the rabble!
Santa’s not welcome at detainee center in England « Dating Jesus 2009
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Everywhere the seafloor was covered with thick, mucky vegetation feeding on the dissolved nutrients: fields of tubeworms, blind white crabs, brine shrimp, clams, eels, seagrass, tiny translucent fish.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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I don't want to speak for others but I have noticed that there is a prevailing belief in the Upper Midwest that bass are not good eating and that they taste "muddy or mucky".
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I don't want to speak for others but I have noticed that there is a prevailing belief in the Upper Midwest that bass are not good eating and that they taste "muddy or mucky".
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