[
UK
/mˈʌki/
]
[ US /ˈməki/ ]
[ US /ˈməki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland -
dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
a mucky stable
muddy boots
How To Use mucky In A Sentence
- We are all sick with mucky colds again and Amelia is in the middle of the worst of it.
- The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
- He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful. The Times Literary Supplement
- Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
- I was walking down the main street and I saw a duck eating a dirty, mucky wet leaf - the poor things are not finding food.
- Xinhua, China's official news agency, reports that one of its staffers was offered mucky clips as a purchase incentive when he asked for a demo of the video.
- He's without doubt the mucky pup of British art. Times, Sunday Times
- He keeps pigs, cattle and sheep and does not look after the animals himself, contracting out all the mucky work.
- But I would not compare a tribe of children flailing weak appendages at the hard surface their soft bellies go upon, in protest for the high muckymuck partisan Brown, to the battle for Iwo Jima Think Progress » As Obama Nominees Languish, Committee Schedules Vote On Right-Wing McConnell Nominee
- As Obi-Wan Kenobi browses the dragon corral, he sees a particularly energetic dragon toss aside a diminutive wrangler, dropping him into a pool of mucky water.