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Definition: Mucky |
MuckyAdjective1. (of soil) soft and watery; "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. Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mucky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: MuckySynonyms: boggy (adj), marshy (adj), miry (adj), muddy (adj), quaggy (adj), sloughy (adj), swampy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mucky |
| English words defined with "mucky": boggy ♦ marshy, miry, Muckiness, Mucksy, muddy ♦ quaggy ♦ sloughy, swampy ♦ tundra soil. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mucky": Mucksy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Mucky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Mucky" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.63% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.38% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mucky": mucky pup. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mucky": mucky-looking. | |
Ending with "mucky": duff-mucky. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mucky duck | 73 |
duck houston mucky | 19 |
mucky pup | 11 |
duck mcgonigels mucky | 7 |
b b duck mucky | 3 |
duck mcgonigals mucky | 3 |
muck mucky | 2 |
company duck mucky mustard | 2 |
captiva duck mucky | 2 |
duck mucky restaurant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mucky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me baltë (miry, muddy, slushy), i përbaltur (draggle-tailed, muddy). (various references) | |
Arabic | موحل (clayey, foul, muddy, murky, puddly, slimy, sloughy, slushy, squashy), قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | торен (stercoraceous), оцапан (dirty, grubby, messy, smudgy, smutty), оплескан (dirty, messy, muddy), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
French | crasseux, boueux (muddy, murky). (various references) | |
German | dreckig (cruddy, dirty, filthy, messy, raunchily, scruffy). (various references) | |
Greek | βρώμικοσ (dirty, filthy, grubby, scruffy, scummy, smudgy), βρωμιάρησ (slobberer, stinker), βορβορώδησ (miry, puddle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטו ף (dungy, filthy, grubby, nasty, slimy, slob, sloppy, soiled, sordid, squalid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trágyás, piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kotor (dingy, dirty, grimy, grubby, unclean), keriting (crimp, curl, kinky). (various references) | |
Italian | sudicio (dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby), sporco (dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, nasty, scruff, smutty, soiled). (various references) | |
Manx | trustyragh (dirty, rubbishy, trashy), slobbagh (. sloppy, dowdy, floppy, scruffy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sórdido (foul, mean, nasty, piggish, sordid, squalid, swinish), imundo (filthy, foul, piggish, squalid, swinish, unclean). (various references) | |
Romanian | de bãlegar. (various references) | |
Russian | грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious), противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unclean), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | puerco (cedar, filthy, foul, hog, nasty, pig, piggish, slatternly), asqueroso (augean, beastly, crappy, disgusting, distasteful, foul, gross, loathsome, lousy, nasty, noisome, putrid, rancid, revolting, sordid, squalid, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Swedish | smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean), skitig (dirty), lortig (dirty, filthy). (various references) | |
Thai | สกปรก (cacky, dirty, foul, grubby, grungy, sleazy, sordid, squalid), หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, ill-bred, indecency, indecent, neanderthal, ribald, robustious, rough, rude, swinish). (various references) | |
Turkish | pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гнойовий (dungy), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhớp nhúa, bẩn thỉu (crummy, dirtily, dirty, filthy, grubby, messy, miry, sordid, villainous). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Mucky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fucky, hucky, Macky, malcky, mckoy, Mecky, Mickry, micky, mocky, mucka, Muecke, Mukoko, Mulkay, nacky, ucky, ukky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mucky" (pronounced mu"kē) |
| 3 | -u" k ē | Luckie, lucky, plucky, unlucky, yucky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-m-u-y" | |
-1 letter: muck, yuck. | |
-2 letters: cum, yuk, yum. | |
-3 letters: mu, my, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-m-u-y" | |
+2 letters: muckily. | |
+3 letters: hummocky, mullocky. | |
+5 letters: ungimmicky. | |
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