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Mucky

adjective

(of soil) soft and watery. Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged. "A marshy coastline" , "Miry roads" , "Wet mucky lowland" , "Muddy barnyard" , "Quaggy terrain" , "The sloughy edge of the pond" , "Swampy bayous"

Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck. Synonym: muddy. "A mucky stable"

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... he, mix'd a double feed, An' put it into th' troff; "Tha greedy lukkin beeast," he sed, "Aw'll awther stawl thee off, Or else aw'll brust thi hide—that is Unless 'at its to toff!" An' then he left it wol he went His mucky clooas to doff. ...

— Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series - To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour - from his Popular Writings • John Hartley

... in New England, the number of small shallow swales, that contain unripe or impure peat, is much greater than that of large and deep bogs. Their contents are therefore more of the "mucky" than of the "peaty" order, and this may partly account for New England usage in regard to ...

— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson

... at a depth of 3 feet below the channel. The lower 2 feet of this distance was through a black, mucky substance which was so tough and sticky that removing it was ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke