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Mucky   /mˈəki/   Listen
adjective
Mucky  adj.  
1.
Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth."
2.
Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. (Obs.) "Mucky money and false felicity."





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"Mucky" Quotes from Famous Books



... puzzle to the Hull antiquaries. I have often inquired of old persons likely to know the origin of such names of places at that sea-port as "The Land of Green Ginger," "Pig Alley," "Mucky-south-end," and "Rotten Herring Staith;" and I have come to the conclusion, that "The Land of Green Ginger" was a very dirty place where horses were kept: a mews, in short, which none of the Muses, not even with Homer as an exponent, could exalt ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 • Various
... Wall Street and into the offices of the top brokerage firms and into the sanctum sanctorums of the wealthiest of mucky-mucks but had been too impatient to stick around long enough to possibly hear something that might be profitable. He admitted, grudgingly, that he wouldn't have known what to listen for anyway. Frustrated there, he had gone back uptown and finally located the ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
... localities, but it can be bought cheap from florists. Found under mucky bog-swamps but must be thoroughly dried and pulverized ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell


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