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单词 mucky
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Definition of mucky in English:

mucky

adjectivemuckiest, muckier ˈmʌkiˈməki
  • 1Covered with dirt or filth.

    he took off his mucky boots
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't know what I'd do without mine, as my back window gets terribly mucky in rainy weather.
    • Tash had been right; they were unlikely to come across anyone in these deserted side-ways, yet they weren't dirty or mucky like the alleys of the city.
    • Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group.
    • She is fascinated, for example, by the smell of men - ‘their work clothes and tools and tobacco and mucky boots and sour-cheese socks.’
    • The ground looked good from the beginning though and even on the mucky entrance to the course carloads of immaculately-dressed beauties were everywhere.
    • The driver's side window opened, which allowed more water to pour into the car and also make it sink further into the mucky bottom of the ditch.
    • Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
    • A number of elderly supporters failed to hold their footing and had to be assisted back up off the mucky ground with their clothing clearly soiled.
    • Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
    • Whether going forward or in defence these three were everywhere, covering every mucky blade of grass.
    • In mucky work boots and jeans he marched across the carpet of York model agency, sat down in front of the stunning blonde who ran the show and said defiantly: ‘I want you to turn me into a male model.’
    • Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians.
    • We crawled forward through the slimy, mucky, mass.
    • There was a field beside the road, half mucky dirt and clods, and half graying grass struggling for vitality.
    • As a child, we had them for particularly rainy days walking to school when, because of their nature, we could splash in puddles with impunity and squelch our way through mucky grass verges.
    • The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
    • 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.
    • The bus hurtled by, spraying a mucky puddle over my shoes.
    • A million pot-holes, mucky streets, traffic jams topped by heavy showers ensure a two-hour drive to the nearest mall.
    • I stood up and kicked some dirt, it formed a mucky cloud.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, mud-caked, grubby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, begrimed, bespattered, befouled, polluted, squalid, insanitary
    informal cruddy, grungy, yucky, icky, gloopy, crummy
    British informal manky, gungy, grotty
    Northern Irish informal bogging
    Australian/New Zealand informal scungy
    literary besmirched
    rare feculent
    1. 1.1informal Corrupt or sordid.
      a mucky mix of political wheeler-dealing and multinational corruption
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Daily life and work is becoming ensnared in the undercurrents of mucky politics that pervades almost every aspect of work life.
      • Let us escape from the mucky world of politics for a day and enjoy the cleaner healthier world of heavy engineering.
      • Through it all, there have been two constants: the Queen is pragmatic and restrained, and the media is all over every mucky story.
      • Still, at least we can rely on Richard Curtis to sparkle fairy dust on the mucky world of politics - he's writing a screenplay about the G8 summit.
      Synonyms
      dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, grubby, shabby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, squalid, flea-bitten, slummy
    2. 1.2British informal Mildly pornographic.
      mucky books
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Can we expect any more mucky animal porn tasks in this new series?
      • Angel told the Greenock Telegraph that she had already had some enquiries, although a number were a bit mucky.
      • There, 5.3 million home Net users spent more than an hour visiting hot sites, while the research found that 40 per cent of Spanish home Net users visited a mucky site in June.
      • 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.
      • A Californian pornographer is suing Google for copyright infringement alleging the search engine's image search is giving people free peeks at its mucky pictures.
      • However, last week an ecclesiastical court gave the go-ahead - just as long as the masts met safety guidelines and weren't used to carry mucky material.
      • He was accused of accessing mucky pictures and the website of a Las Vegas escort agency.
      • During that time it attracted some 16,000 hits as punters paid to watch mucky movies.
      • On Fox, which liked to test the limits of acceptability on mainstream US TV, the series was permitted to poke about in mucky areas from which other networks would have shied away.
      • He has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos - and he doesn't mind how mucky they are.
      • On the first page of Allison's Awakening, one of the mucky books on my bedside shelf, the publishers warn that ‘this book is a work of fiction.’

Derivatives

  • muckiness

  • noun ˈmʌkɪnəsˈməkinəs
    • Rather, it appeals to those who revel in the muckiness of oil paint.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But he has an eye for human behaviour, in all its muckiness, that is totally clear.
      • Smiley is matter-of-fact about the muckiness of farm life: castrating piglets, spreading dangerous chemicals and eternal scrubbing.
      • The muckiness is intensified on warmer days when the snow and ice melts into a brown slush.
      • Amongst the muckiness of poverty, walking past shops with aisles of dusty goods, along an empty road, I come across a man whistling.

Rhymes

clucky, ducky, happy-go-lucky, Kentucky, lucky, plucky, yucky
 
 

Definition of mucky in US English:

mucky

adjectiveˈməkiˈməkē
  • Covered with or consisting of dirt or filth.

    guests carried their food on trays to mucky tables
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Whether going forward or in defence these three were everywhere, covering every mucky blade of grass.
    • Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
    • There was a field beside the road, half mucky dirt and clods, and half graying grass struggling for vitality.
    • Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
    • She is fascinated, for example, by the smell of men - ‘their work clothes and tools and tobacco and mucky boots and sour-cheese socks.’
    • Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians.
    • I don't know what I'd do without mine, as my back window gets terribly mucky in rainy weather.
    • In mucky work boots and jeans he marched across the carpet of York model agency, sat down in front of the stunning blonde who ran the show and said defiantly: ‘I want you to turn me into a male model.’
    • The ground looked good from the beginning though and even on the mucky entrance to the course carloads of immaculately-dressed beauties were everywhere.
    • A number of elderly supporters failed to hold their footing and had to be assisted back up off the mucky ground with their clothing clearly soiled.
    • The driver's side window opened, which allowed more water to pour into the car and also make it sink further into the mucky bottom of the ditch.
    • The bus hurtled by, spraying a mucky puddle over my shoes.
    • 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.
    • Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group.
    • Tash had been right; they were unlikely to come across anyone in these deserted side-ways, yet they weren't dirty or mucky like the alleys of the city.
    • As a child, we had them for particularly rainy days walking to school when, because of their nature, we could splash in puddles with impunity and squelch our way through mucky grass verges.
    • A million pot-holes, mucky streets, traffic jams topped by heavy showers ensure a two-hour drive to the nearest mall.
    • I stood up and kicked some dirt, it formed a mucky cloud.
    • The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
    • We crawled forward through the slimy, mucky, mass.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, mud-caked, grubby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, begrimed, bespattered, befouled, polluted, squalid, insanitary
 
 
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