mucky adj 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" [syn: {boggy}, {marshy}, {miry}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}] 2: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: {muddy}] [also: {muckiest}, {muckier}] muckier See {mucky}