mucky Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    swampy; soggy; boggy; quaggy; muddy; marshy; sloughy; sloppy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
    • the ground was boggy under foot
    • a marshy coastline
    • miry roads
    • wet mucky lowland
    • muddy barnyard
    • quaggy terrain
    • the sloughy edge of the pond
    • swampy bayous
  2. adjective satellite dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
    muddy.
    • muddy boots
    • a mucky stable

WordNet


Muck"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." Spenser.
  2. Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. Obs. Spenser.
    Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

Webster 1913