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mucky

 adjective
     
muck‧y informal
1 dirty:
Your hands are all mucky.
Don't come in here with those mucky boots on.
2 British English a mucky joke or story etc is slightly rude and about sex [= dirty]
WORD FOCUS: dirty WORD FOCUS: dirty
similar words: filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky British English, muddy, greasy, dusty, soiled, contaminated, polluted

➔ See also dirty
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