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MUCKY (muckier, muckiest)
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, muckiest Dictionary entry overview: What does mucky mean?
• MUCKY (adjective)
The adjective MUCKY has 2 senses:
1. (of soil) soft and watery
2. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Familiarity information: MUCKY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of soil) soft and watery
Synonyms:
boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged
Context example:
swampy bayous
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Synonyms:
mucky; muddy
Context example:
a mucky stable
Similar:
dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)
Derivation:
muck (any thick, viscous matter)
Context examples
She consented; and she even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dress, "lest," as she said, "I should mucky it."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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