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# mucky

«mucky» in Mova's school dictionary: **Dirty, muddy or messy: mucky hands** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (mucky, muckier, muckiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, UK, Ireland, Australia) Dirty, muddy or messy: mucky hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#m1)

2) (informal) Rude in a slightly naughty way: a mucky joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#m2)

3) (informal) About weather: wet, grey and unpleasant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Common in British, Irish and Australian family talk: «Wash your mucky hands!». It is casual and friendly, not rude itself. In stories, a «mucky pup» is a messy child. Phrases: mucky pup, mucky boots, a mucky day.

### examples

- Take off your mucky boots before you come in! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x1)
- Your face is all mucky from the chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x2)
- You mucky pup, look at your clothes! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x3)
- It's a mucky old day; let's stay inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x4)
- The dog came back from the field really mucky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x5)
- He told a mucky joke and Mum frowned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x6)
- My hands are muckier than yours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/#x7)

### note

Informal; in formal writing use «dirty» or «muddy». From «muck» (dirt, manure). Comparative: muckier, muckiest. Related: muck about/around (UK: mess around).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mucky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mucky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.