mucky

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. (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”Synonyms: boggymarshymirymuddyquaggysloppysloughysoggysquashyswampywaterlogged
  2. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck“muddy boots”“a mucky stable”Synonyms: muddy
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Mucky \Muck"y\ (m[u^]k"[y^]), a.

1.Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

2.Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Mucky money and false felicity.— Latimer.[1913 Webster]
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