murkyn.

Brit.

/ˈməːki/,

/ˈmʊəki/, U.S.

/ˈmərki/,

/ˈmʊrki/

Inflections: Plural murkys.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Murki.

Etymology: < German Murki, Murky, said (in F. W. Marpurg Kritische Briefe (1759) no. 36) to have been coined by the German composer Seedo (d. 1754) c1720; further etymology unknown (an etymology has been suggested from the name of a Polish village, but there seems to be little to support this).Early collections include XII Murki f. Klavier (c1727) by Balthasar Schmid of Nuremberg, and Sperontes' Leipzig collection of student songs ‘Die singende Muse an der Pleisse’ (1736–45). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (mɒ̄·ɹki) /ˈmɜːkɪ/.

Music. Chiefly historical.

A piece with a bass part consisting of broken octaves. Also (more fully murky bass): broken octaves as used in accompaniment; occasionally in plural.Used esp. with reference to German keyboard music of the 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece

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display1959

mobile1961

soundscape1968

grower1973

lounge1978

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 298/1 Murky, a piece of harpsichord music, having a bass consisting of broken octaves.

1893–7 J. S. Shedlock tr. K. W. J. H. Riemann Dict. Music Murkys (Murky Bass), a term applied to broken octaves in accompaniment... Also pieces with such basses.

1958 Music & Lett. 39 35 Adolf Chybiński, in..the Polish musical monthly ‘Muzyka’ for August 1951, says that..‘their [sc. German theorists' and musicians'] writings make it quite clear that in the “Murky” (strictly speaking: “Murky-Bässe”) they saw a Polish product’.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) References to the murky by C. P. E. Bach..indicate that it was a widespread keyboard genre... Sperontes' four-volume song collection..contains a number of murkys... The murky bass frequently appears also in German songs of the later 18th century.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

murkyadj.

Brit.

/ˈməːki/, U.S.

/ˈmərki/

Forms: Middle English (in a late copy) 1700s– mirky, 1500s–1600s murkie, 1600s– murky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: murk n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < murk n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Unlike murk adj., murk n.¹, and related words, not restricted to Scots use in 18th and early 19th centuries (compare note s.v. murk adj.).

1. Of a place: dark; gloomy. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective]

duneOE

thestera900

thestria900

wana1000

darkfulOE

fadec1290

obscurousa1492

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mungy1632

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gloomfula1849

ebonine1881

c1590 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Coll. Oxf. 64(2)) (1884) lxxxvii. 6 (MED) Thai set me in the nether lake, in mirky stedes [L. tenebrosis] & in shado of dede.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 25 With such loue, as 'tis now the murkiest den..shall neuer melt Mine honor into lust.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. i. 34 Hell is murky .

1729 R. Savage Wanderer ii. 40 A deep damp Gloom o'erspreads the murky Cell.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 626 Haste to Pluto's murky abode.

1816 J. Keats O Solitude! 3 O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings.

1864 Ladies' Repository Jan. 16 Fly, fly! ye fleeting moments!.. Dart with lightning's speed Into the murky past.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. ix. 183 The ante-chapel..that afternoon happened to be exceptionally murky.

1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief vi. 210 He led them into the murky interior, dispersing a turkey and her brood from the Reception Hall.

1991 Sanity Jan. 18/1 We were here when the Slavs hadn't dreamed of leaving their murky northlands.

a. Of air, the atmosphere, etc.: obscured by mist or vapour; foggy, cloudy. Of mist, clouds, etc., or darkness itself: dense, thick, intense, impenetrable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid

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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark > thick or dense (of night or darkness)

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murky1814

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 280 So sented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His Nostril wide into the murkie Air.

1679 S. Woodford Paraphrase upon Canticles 50 Th' early Sun, his Glories to dispense, New guilds the Sullys of the murky Night.

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 965 Black Clouds and murky Fogs involve her Head.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 475 When lo! a murky cloud the Thund'rer forms.

1762 S. Derrick Battle of Lora 7 They threw their Spears to Earth; Obscuring, like two murky Clouds, our Mirth.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 246 The path was altogether undiscernible in the murky darkness which surrounded them.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany i. 2 A county notorious even in England for its murky atmosphere.

1896 J. Lumsden Poems 64 The mirkiest hour—whan there's nae mune—Precedes the day.

1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 93 Old-time sterno drinkers..made the flophouse forenoon murky with their hard-time breath.

1986 D. Potter Ticket to Ride (1987) xvii. 138 The branches way above him made..patterns against the murky, rain-sodden light.

b. Of water, etc.: cloudy due to suspended matter; dirty. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1840 E. A. Poe Visionary in Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque II. 195 That fair child..who now deep beneath the murky water, was thinking in bitterness of heart upon her sweet caresses.

1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes vi. 135 A broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath.

1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 345/1 The Amka..stern-wheels slowly from the murky flood into the green water.

1979 D. Smith Cookery Course II. 297 Fast boiling can turn a stock very cloudy and murky.

1995 .net Feb. 6/1 This issue..plunges into the murky waters of sex and romances, where human needs and emotions meet the information superhighway.

c. Of a photograph, film, or other visual image: indistinct, unclear, blurred. Of recorded sound: poorly reproduced.

ΚΠ

1874 Graphic 31 Jan. 111/2 A Carpenter's Scene is generally a flat in the first grooves consisting of some murky picture or other.

1970 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) I. xviii. 236 The following film is shot in murky 8mm.

1989 Time (Electronic ed.) 24 July 50 Three-quarters of a billion people peered at the murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969.

1996 J. Morrish et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 123/1 Producing better sounding, professionally arranged cover versions of murky independent recordings.

3. Dirty, grimy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]

uncleaneOE

horyc1000

foulOE

fennilicha1225

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blackc1300

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filthyc1384

nastyc1390

sowlyc1400

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filthish1530

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mawkit1962

feechie1975

1755 J. G. Cooper Tomb of Shakespear (ed. 2) 9 The reptile snake, or sullen toad, The murky floor had soil'd with venom green.

1788 J. O'Keeffe Blacksmith of Antwerp (1798) 379 With hammer's clink, his throbbing breast kept pace, He look'd, he lov'd, then wash'd his murky face.

1798 R. Bloomfield Summer in Farmer's Boy 199 To ride in murky state the panting Steed.

1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries ii. 25 An extensive coal mine, where are busily employed the murky-visaged colliers.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. i. 27 He had the audacity to..draw him towards as much light as would pass through the murky window-pane.

1987 V. S. Naipaul Engine of Arrival i. 57 His greenhouse..was empty, its glass murky with dust and rain.

4. Dark in colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dark-coloured

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wanOE

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1759 W. Mason Caractacus 31 Sullen and sad to fancy's frighted eye Did shapes of dun and murky hue advance.

1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 86 Its dark, murky hue is unpleasing.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 151 The chastest good-keeping—compared with which, the fabled gorgeousness of Eastern Fairy Land itself, would appear to be clothed in as many dark and murky colours.

1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine ii The gens de couleur.., with ‘Ichabod’ legible on their murky foreheads.

1970 Mosaic 3 Spring 10 The great globe of the prairies..was a Renaissance globe..worked in wrought bronze burnished in murky gold.

1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 21/1 The doom and gloom of those prescient people who publish market letters..has deepened to just about the murky hue needed to forecast a return to sunny blue skies.

5. Shady, suspect; morally questionable, sinister. Frequently in murky past.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > immoral or unethical > of doubtful morality

murky1779

questionable1788

doubtful1838

dubious1860

1779 H. Cowley Albina iii. 40 The moon hath hid her head, As scorning with her lucid beams to gild This murky business.

1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad iv. xl. 289 Ruin—spoliatious—murky deeds of night.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxiii. 364 One good deed in a murky life of guilt.

1906 P. G. Wodehouse Love among Chickens (ed. 2) x. 126 I was..thinking about..my wretched novel. I had just framed a more than usually murky scene.

1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 17 359 It..throws new light on the murky past of mental healing in America.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 51 With that very murky background, what could he do except set up as being simple and charming?

1963 J. Cleugh Love locked Out 11 St. Augustine, tormented by the murky past which had preceded his appointment as bishop of Hippo in North Africa.

1990 Screen Internat. 24 Mar. 1/5 Hollywood's murky accounting methods are being scrutinised in a court case which threatens to unearth a hornet's nest of..dubious financial practices.

6. Obscure, confused, imprecisely defined.

ΚΠ

1783 A. Seward Poet. Wks. (1810) II. 139 Rise, kindred dunces, from your drear abodes..till your growing numbers equal those That hurl'd at Pope's bright verse their murky prose!

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives IV. lxi. 7 What was I going to say?—My brain is as murky as the clouds under which I am writing—Oh!—I recollect.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It App. A. 575 Two men who never had any idea of fear further than the sort of murky comprehension of it which they were enabled to gather from the dictionary.

1962 Polit. Sci. Q. 77 266 Mr. Stern has a sharp mind and it cuts deftly through a murky subject.

1985 J. Berman Talking Cure iii. 77 The murky syntax and strained psychological interpretation do little to illuminate the problem.

7. Of a look, a person's demeanour, etc.: sullen, cheerless, gloomy. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > of the appearance or face

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1830 Lady Morgan France in 1829–30 II. 133 Here and there..was occasionally observable some pale, murky underling of the law, scribbling at a high desk.

1841 C. M. Sedgwick Lett. from Abroad I. 172 They would advance with downcast eyes and murky looks.

1856 R. S. Hawker in Life & Lett. (1905) ix. 152 They left, looking very murky.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	murky
释义	murkyn. Brit. /ˈməːki/, /ˈmʊəki/, U.S. /ˈmərki/, /ˈmʊrki/ Inflections: Plural murkys. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Murki. Etymology: < German Murki, Murky, said (in F. W. Marpurg Kritische Briefe (1759) no. 36) to have been coined by the German composer Seedo (d. 1754) c1720; further etymology unknown (an etymology has been suggested from the name of a Polish village, but there seems to be little to support this).Early collections include XII Murki f. Klavier (c1727) by Balthasar Schmid of Nuremberg, and Sperontes' Leipzig collection of student songs ‘Die singende Muse an der Pleisse’ (1736–45). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (mɒ̄·ɹki) /ˈmɜːkɪ/. Music. Chiefly historical. A piece with a bass part consisting of broken octaves. Also (more fully murky bass): broken octaves as used in accompaniment; occasionally in plural.Used esp. with reference to German keyboard music of the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece tinternel1573 aubade1678 nome1705 accompaniment1728 potboiler1783 raga1789 elegy1808 improvisation1824 pièce d'occasion1830 morceau de salon1854 tum-tum1859 murky1876 test-piece1876 invention1880 monodia1880 serenata1883 monody1887 dumka1895 incidental number1904 a cappella1905 folk-tune1907 realization1911 nosebleeder1921 show tune1927 sicilienne1927 estampie1937 ballad1944 Siciliana1947 hard rocker1957 rabble-rouser1958 display1959 mobile1961 soundscape1968 grower1973 lounge1978 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 298/1 Murky, a piece of harpsichord music, having a bass consisting of broken octaves. 1893–7 J. S. Shedlock tr. K. W. J. H. Riemann Dict. Music Murkys (Murky Bass), a term applied to broken octaves in accompaniment... Also pieces with such basses. 1958 Music & Lett. 39 35 Adolf Chybiński, in..the Polish musical monthly ‘Muzyka’ for August 1951, says that..‘their [sc. German theorists' and musicians'] writings make it quite clear that in the “Murky” (strictly speaking: “Murky-Bässe”) they saw a Polish product’. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) References to the murky by C. P. E. Bach..indicate that it was a widespread keyboard genre... Sperontes' four-volume song collection..contains a number of murkys... The murky bass frequently appears also in German songs of the later 18th century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). murkyadj. Brit. /ˈməːki/, U.S. /ˈmərki/ Forms: Middle English (in a late copy) 1700s– mirky, 1500s–1600s murkie, 1600s– murky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: murk n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < murk n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Unlike murk adj., murk n.¹, and related words, not restricted to Scots use in 18th and early 19th centuries (compare note s.v. murk adj.). 1. Of a place: dark; gloomy. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] duneOE thestera900 thestria900 wana1000 darkfulOE fadec1290 obscurousa1492 black-faced1562 murkyc1590 gloomy1594 tenebrous1599 solemn1604 overcast1616 mungy1632 shady1746 sombrous1754 sombre1760 gloomyish1821 gloomfula1849 ebonine1881 c1590 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Coll. Oxf. 64(2)) (1884) lxxxvii. 6 (MED) Thai set me in the nether lake, in mirky stedes [L. tenebrosis] & in shado of dede. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 25 With such loue, as 'tis now the murkiest den..shall neuer melt Mine honor into lust. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. i. 34 Hell is murky . View more context for this quotation 1729 R. Savage Wanderer ii. 40 A deep damp Gloom o'erspreads the murky Cell. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 626 Haste to Pluto's murky abode. 1816 J. Keats O Solitude! 3 O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings. 1864 Ladies' Repository Jan. 16 Fly, fly! ye fleeting moments!.. Dart with lightning's speed Into the murky past. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. ix. 183 The ante-chapel..that afternoon happened to be exceptionally murky. 1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief vi. 210 He led them into the murky interior, dispersing a turkey and her brood from the Reception Hall. 1991 Sanity Jan. 18/1 We were here when the Slavs hadn't dreamed of leaving their murky northlands. 2. a. Of air, the atmosphere, etc.: obscured by mist or vapour; foggy, cloudy. Of mist, clouds, etc., or darkness itself: dense, thick, intense, impenetrable. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid troublyc1380 greata1398 murkc1480 mistyc1485 foggyc1487 troublea1500 grossa1592 fat1598 filthya1616 thick1626 murky1667 turbid1705 solid1807 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark > thick or dense (of night or darkness) thicka900 close1532 thicky1587 grossa1592 murky1814 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 280 So sented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His Nostril wide into the murkie Air. View more context for this quotation 1679 S. Woodford Paraphrase upon Canticles 50 Th' early Sun, his Glories to dispense, New guilds the Sullys of the murky Night. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 965 Black Clouds and murky Fogs involve her Head. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 475 When lo! a murky cloud the Thund'rer forms. 1762 S. Derrick Battle of Lora 7 They threw their Spears to Earth; Obscuring, like two murky Clouds, our Mirth. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 246 The path was altogether undiscernible in the murky darkness which surrounded them. View more context for this quotation 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany i. 2 A county notorious even in England for its murky atmosphere. 1896 J. Lumsden Poems 64 The mirkiest hour—whan there's nae mune—Precedes the day. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 93 Old-time sterno drinkers..made the flophouse forenoon murky with their hard-time breath. 1986 D. Potter Ticket to Ride (1987) xvii. 138 The branches way above him made..patterns against the murky, rain-sodden light. b. Of water, etc.: cloudy due to suspended matter; dirty. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1840 E. A. Poe Visionary in Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque II. 195 That fair child..who now deep beneath the murky water, was thinking in bitterness of heart upon her sweet caresses. 1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes vi. 135 A broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 345/1 The Amka..stern-wheels slowly from the murky flood into the green water. 1979 D. Smith Cookery Course II. 297 Fast boiling can turn a stock very cloudy and murky. 1995 .net Feb. 6/1 This issue..plunges into the murky waters of sex and romances, where human needs and emotions meet the information superhighway. c. Of a photograph, film, or other visual image: indistinct, unclear, blurred. Of recorded sound: poorly reproduced. ΚΠ 1874 Graphic 31 Jan. 111/2 A Carpenter's Scene is generally a flat in the first grooves consisting of some murky picture or other. 1970 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1989) I. xviii. 236 The following film is shot in murky 8mm. 1989 Time (Electronic ed.) 24 July 50 Three-quarters of a billion people peered at the murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969. 1996 J. Morrish et al. in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 123/1 Producing better sounding, professionally arranged cover versions of murky independent recordings. 3. Dirty, grimy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 1755 J. G. Cooper Tomb of Shakespear (ed. 2) 9 The reptile snake, or sullen toad, The murky floor had soil'd with venom green. 1788 J. O'Keeffe Blacksmith of Antwerp (1798) 379 With hammer's clink, his throbbing breast kept pace, He look'd, he lov'd, then wash'd his murky face. 1798 R. Bloomfield Summer in Farmer's Boy 199 To ride in murky state the panting Steed. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries ii. 25 An extensive coal mine, where are busily employed the murky-visaged colliers. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. i. 27 He had the audacity to..draw him towards as much light as would pass through the murky window-pane. 1987 V. S. Naipaul Engine of Arrival i. 57 His greenhouse..was empty, its glass murky with dust and rain. 4. Dark in colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dark-coloured darkeOE blackeOE browna1000 swartOE wanOE murka1325 darkish?c1425 duska1450 dusketly1486 sad?1504 duskish1530 base1539 dusky1558 swarthy1577 darksome1598 smutty1648 subfusc?1705 infuscated1727 murky1759 subfuscous1762 sable1791 sombrous1799 obfuscous1822 sombre1829 wine-dark1855 murkish1869 1759 W. Mason Caractacus 31 Sullen and sad to fancy's frighted eye Did shapes of dun and murky hue advance. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 86 Its dark, murky hue is unpleasing. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 151 The chastest good-keeping—compared with which, the fabled gorgeousness of Eastern Fairy Land itself, would appear to be clothed in as many dark and murky colours. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine ii The gens de couleur.., with ‘Ichabod’ legible on their murky foreheads. 1970 Mosaic 3 Spring 10 The great globe of the prairies..was a Renaissance globe..worked in wrought bronze burnished in murky gold. 1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 21/1 The doom and gloom of those prescient people who publish market letters..has deepened to just about the murky hue needed to forecast a return to sunny blue skies. 5. Shady, suspect; morally questionable, sinister. Frequently in murky past. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > immoral or unethical > of doubtful morality murky1779 questionable1788 doubtful1838 dubious1860 1779 H. Cowley Albina iii. 40 The moon hath hid her head, As scorning with her lucid beams to gild This murky business. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad iv. xl. 289 Ruin—spoliatious—murky deeds of night. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxiii. 364 One good deed in a murky life of guilt. 1906 P. G. Wodehouse Love among Chickens (ed. 2) x. 126 I was..thinking about..my wretched novel. I had just framed a more than usually murky scene. 1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 17 359 It..throws new light on the murky past of mental healing in America. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 51 With that very murky background, what could he do except set up as being simple and charming? 1963 J. Cleugh Love locked Out 11 St. Augustine, tormented by the murky past which had preceded his appointment as bishop of Hippo in North Africa. 1990 Screen Internat. 24 Mar. 1/5 Hollywood's murky accounting methods are being scrutinised in a court case which threatens to unearth a hornet's nest of..dubious financial practices. 6. Obscure, confused, imprecisely defined. ΚΠ 1783 A. Seward Poet. Wks. (1810) II. 139 Rise, kindred dunces, from your drear abodes..till your growing numbers equal those That hurl'd at Pope's bright verse their murky prose! 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives IV. lxi. 7 What was I going to say?—My brain is as murky as the clouds under which I am writing—Oh!—I recollect. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It App. A. 575 Two men who never had any idea of fear further than the sort of murky comprehension of it which they were enabled to gather from the dictionary. 1962 Polit. Sci. Q. 77 266 Mr. Stern has a sharp mind and it cuts deftly through a murky subject. 1985 J. Berman Talking Cure iii. 77 The murky syntax and strained psychological interpretation do little to illuminate the problem. 7. Of a look, a person's demeanour, etc.: sullen, cheerless, gloomy. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > of the appearance or face louring13.. sada1375 frowningc1386 fluishc1460 Lentena1500 glumming1526 Friday-faced1583 becloudeda1586 gash1589 dark1593 mumping1594 hanging1607 fiddle-facedc1785 murky1830 unsunned1838 thought-ladena1847 unsunny1859 unhappy-looking1863 unhappy-faced1876 boot-faced1958 1830 Lady Morgan France in 1829–30 II. 133 Here and there..was occasionally observable some pale, murky underling of the law, scribbling at a high desk. 1841 C. M. Sedgwick Lett. from Abroad I. 172 They would advance with downcast eyes and murky looks. 1856 R. S. Hawker in Life & Lett. (1905) ix. 152 They left, looking very murky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876adj.c1590
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