Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mucky"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mucky \Muck"y\, a.
1. Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. ``Mucky filth.''
--Spenser.

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

Mucky money and false felicity. --Latimer.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

mucky
adj 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" [syn: {boggy},
{marshy}, {miry}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}]
2: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a
mucky stable" [syn: {muddy}]


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