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Mucky adj.

Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth."

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. (Obs.) "Mucky money and false felicity."

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Etymology of 'Mucky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mucky" Quotes from Famous Books

... * * * College, and there dropped me, after I had given him my address, entreating me to "vind the bairn, and coom to zee him down to Metholl. But dinnot goo ax for Farmer Porter—they's all Porters there away. Yow ax for Wooden-house Bob—that's me; and if I barn't to home, ax for Mucky Billy—that's my brawther—we're all gotten our names down to ven; and if he barn't to home, yow ax for Frog-hall—that's where my sister do live; and they'll all veed ye, and lodge ye, and welcome come. We be all like one, doon ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... quite well. Robin works very hard. But I think it does her good. And of course I help her. All I can. I am glad she has got a boy. To do the washing-up. I think that was too much for her. It used to make her cross. One cannot blame her. It is trying work. And it makes you mucky. He is a good boy. But has been neglected. So doesn't know much. I am teaching him grammar. He says 'you was' and 'her be.' But is getting better. He says he went to school. But they couldn't have taken ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

Words linked to "Mucky" : soiled, marshy, unclean, soggy, wet, sloppy, muck, waterlogged, sloughy