mucky

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   informal, especially British: covered with dirt or mud; dirty and messy

   Leave your mucky boots by the back door.

2. 2
   adj

   British informal: obscene or sexually explicit

   The editor rejected the mucky story as unsuitable for a children's magazine.

3. 3
   verb

   dialectal British: to make something dirty or muddy

   Wipe the brush first, or you will mucky the clean floor.

Formed from muck + -y. Muck came through Middle English from a Scandinavian source meaning dung or manure. The adjective developed the general sense 'dirty or muddy' and then the informal sexual sense. A dialectal transitive verb, as in 'mucky it,' treats the adjective as 'make dirty.'

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