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mucky

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muck  (mk)
n.
1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.
3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
4. Something filthy or disgusting.
5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
tr.v. mucked, muck·ing, mucks
1. To fertilize with manure or compost.
2. To make dirty with or as if with muck.
3. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
Phrasal Verbs:
muck about Chiefly British
To spend time idly; putter.
muck up Informal
To bungle, damage, or ruin.

[Middle English muk, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse myki, dung.]

mucki·ly adv.
mucky adj.

mucky [ˈmʌkɪ]
adj muckier, muckiest
1. dirty
2. of or like muck
muckily  adv
muckiness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.mucky - (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"
wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
2.mucky - dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

mucky
adjective dirty, soiled, muddy, filthy, messy, grimy, mud-caked, bespattered, begrimed, skanky (slang) The design means that you can't see the odd mucky mark.
Translations
mucky [ˈmʌkɪ] ADJ (muckier (compar) (muckiest (superl))) (= muddy) → lleno de barro, embarrado; (= filthy) → sucio, asqueroso, mugroso(LAm)
keep your mucky paws off!¡no toques con esas manazas tan sucias!
to get mucky (= muddy) → llenarse de barro, embarrarse; (= filthy) → ponerse hecho un asco, ensuciarse
to get sth mucky (= muddy) → llenar algo de barro, embarrar algo; (= filthy) → dejar algo hecho un asco, ensuciar algo
you're a mucky pup!¡qué cochinote eres!
mucky [ˈmʌki] adj (= dirty) → boueux/euse, sale
mucky
adj (+er)dreckig (inf), → schmutzig; soil etcmatschig; to get oneself/something all muckysich/etw ganz dreckig (inf)or schmutzig machen; you mucky thing or pup! (Brit inf) → du Ferkel! (inf); keep your mucky paws off! (hum inf)nimm deine dreckigen Pfoten weg! (inf)
mucky [ˈmʌkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (muddy) → fangoso/a; (filthy) → sudicio/a, sporco/a, lordo/a
mucky [ˈmʌkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (muddy) → fangoso/a; (filthy) → sudicio/a, sporco/a, lordo/a


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His mother wer just soa - we wer a'most too mucky to sow t' corn for makking her breead.
She consented; and she even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dress, "lest," as she said, "I should mucky it.
A little corrupt, venal, lord-and-king-cursed nation, full or mucky pride (as they say in ---shire), and helpless pauperism; rotten with abuses, worm-eaten with prejudices
 
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