1538 N. Shaxton Iniunctions sig. Aiv Suche thinges as be set forth..vnder the name of holy relyques... Namely of stynkyng bootes, mucky combes, ragged rochettes [etc.].

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiii^v/2 Muckye, fimosus.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vii. sig. S3 At the well head the purest streames arise: But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 151 The residue of the Odour..doth draw a waterish filthiness from the said putrefaction by continuance, and becomes rank, or muckie.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 66 A Soss; a mucky Puddle.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 266 The largest fish lie in the eddies and deep mucky waters.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. v. 82 The mucky and murky lane.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ii. 26 It is bad going underfoot—thick dust or jagged chunks of shale, and in some mines where there is water it is as mucky as a farmyard.

1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. (Style & Travel section) 30/1 Books are presenting gardening as a glossy, rather than mucky, activity.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. vi. 102 Tak' care; there's a pool o' mucky water just outside t' back-door.

1872 H. T. Dunn Let. 10 Sept. in G. Pedrick Life with Rossetti (1964) xiii. 121 ‘The Beatrice’ had been got out of the mucky state in which it was, & now looks a very good copy.

1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 88 Lack of power through mucky plugs..will immediately be seen on the Rev. counter.

1967 A. Carter Magic Toyshop vi. 126 Victoria 's mucky bib came off her flower-sprigged Viyella dress and the chocolate pudding was sponged from her face.

1987 R. Harris Summers of Wild Rose (1991) iii. 15 Look out, Nell. You've showered smuts all over me—you are a mucky creature.

1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. sig. A2^v Ise dinge thy harnes out, thou base mucky Sewe.

a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xxiv. 191 Full of mucky pride (as they say in —shire).

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 97/2 It was a mucky thing tĭ promise tĭ see him thruff, and then leeave him tĭ get oot on't as he could.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 760 Those mucky little sadists.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 161 Juvenile repugnance continues to be expressed by the old standbys..mouldy, mucky, nasty, no fair, no good.

1959 K. Waterhouse Billy Liar 40 Take your frigging mucky hands off my pullover.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) 16 Nov. 8/3 He might do well to..speak to the Commons candidly about clandestine Saddam Hussein. It is a mucky business.

1972 A. Bennett Getting On i. 19 And I always have to take my clothes off. M.D. in his case stands for Mucky Devil.

1984 B. Reid So Much Love ii. 22 Good vulgarity is absolutely marvellous—it's just when it's a bit mucky I don't like it.

2000 Evening Standard 13 Nov. 59/6 It's a witty, mucky, authentic book, which puts a new and most-welcome spin on this Looking-For-The-One genre—and, no, not just because it's got gay people in it.