Mucky Definition & Meaning

mucky
adjective
  1. (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"

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