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▪ I. mucky, a. Somewhat colloq.|ˈmʌkɪ|
[f. muck n.1 + -y.]
1. a. Dirty, filthy, muddy.
1538Bp. Shaxton Injunct. A iv, Suche thinges as be set forth..vnder the name of holy relyques... Namely of stynkyng bootes, mucky combes, ragged rochettes [etc.]. 1662J. Chandler tr. Van Helmont's Oriat. 151 The residue of the Odour..doth draw a waterish filthiness from the said putrefaction by continuance, and becomes rank, or muckie. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 266 The largest fish lie in the eddies and deep mucky waters. 1894Blackmore Perlycross 354 The mucky and murky lane.
b. Of the weather: ‘Dirty’; foul; ‘thick’. dial.
1804C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View Soil U.S. 143 note, A mucky breeze from the south. 1903Illustr. Lond. News 7 Nov. 685/3 Till the mucky weather's done.
†c. fig. Applied to money, as ‘filthy lucre’; also to a miserly person.
1549Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 54 We be mynded to prefer oure muckye monie..before the ioyse of heauen. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 4 His minde is set on mucky pelfe. 1652Benlowes Theoph. x. lxxxviii, This old muckie wretched elf, Who turns..all that he scrapes, to pelf.
d. More widely: grimy, grubby, horrid.
1872H. T. Dunn Let. 10 Sept. in G. Pedrick Life with Rossetti (1964) xiii. 121 ‘The Beatrice’ had been got out of the mucky state in which it was, & now looks a very good copy. 1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 88 Lack of power through mucky plugs..will immediately be seen on the Rev. counter. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 161 Juvenile repugnance continues to be expressed by the old standbys..mouldy, mucky, nasty, no fair, no good, orrid (usual spelling).
2. Consisting of or resembling muck.
1570Levins Manip. 99/3 Muckye, fimosus. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 15 But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, And with uncomely weedes the gentle wave accloyes. 1840C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. i. v. 61 He had laid the logs right down on a piece of deep, mucky soil, made up of old roots, rotten leaves, [etc.]. 1861Amer. Cycl. XIII. 75/1 If the peat is of mucky consistence..the practice is to shovel it from its bed. 1874Rep. Vermont Board Agric. II. 548, I have about five acres of mucky meadow that was mostly covered with alders.
▪ II. mucky, v. dial.|ˈmʌkɪ|
[f. mucky a.]
trans. To make dirty.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxix, She even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dress, ‘lest’, as she said, ‘I should mucky it’. |