2. Found a great place for hiking but abandoned it because it didn't seem "mucky" or "slooshy" enough. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
You can get a wagon load of them in that mucky soil. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
‘It still looks rather mucky,’ objected Sebastian. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
The soil best adapted to these trees is a rich, mucky loam. From Wordnik.com. [Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden] Reference
Her shoes and stockings were covered with black, mucky mud. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store] Reference
Horses, sheep, dogs - weirdos get their mucky hands on them. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
No more impulsive dinners, or mucky weekends for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
We know the demonstration idea wasn't favored by the mucky-mucks. From Wordnik.com. [Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Insult to Injury to Healing] Reference
Not what you might think, you mucky pups, but one-on-one interviews. From Wordnik.com. [Rewind radio: The First Time With…; Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service; Chain Reaction; The Reunion] Reference
The soils in shallow open waters tend to be mucky and highly organic. From Wordnik.com. [Wetland classifications] Reference
Soils are very poorly drained Histosols and Entisols with mucky surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)] Reference
I crossed the mucky creek, breaking through the shallow ice at every step. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
They can't get the tractors in the fields because well, it's just too mucky. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2007] Reference
The shore here, where stream met reservoir, was very wet and soft and mucky. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
Soil materials range from sand to clay and in some areas are mucky or peaty. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
And the land is going to look like that, and even mucky, for a couple of weeks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2008] Reference
His fur is matted and mucky, with bald patches here and there from the scar tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Capturing Kong] Reference
But the water is like five feet deep, too dirty and mucky for her to get back here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008] Reference
Nowadays, when it comes to war, we're all far too busy to bother with the mucky bits. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
Now it's a smelly, mucky tributary of the Iowa River, which is about a half mile away. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference
Now it's a smelly, mucky tributary of the Iowa River, which is about a half-mile away. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference
And you no longer disregard the possibility of falling face first into the mucky water. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Thanks to the muckrakers, the mucky are facing lots of consequences and accountability. From Wordnik.com. [Trent Lott's Odd No-Frills Retirement Press Conference] Reference
It was a steep climb down, a mucky slog across, and then a tough scrabble up the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
It got more difficult, because a layer of mucky manure was building up, thickening as he progressed. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
At first my only reward was another gout of mucky water, which did nothing to make the job more pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [DearlyDevotedDexter]
Deborah was dead weight in my arms and a thin stream of mucky water dribbled from the corner of her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [DearlyDevotedDexter]
But the bottom was mucky and she wanted to get back to land, so she strode toward a small island just ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
She slogged through the mucky quagmire in front of the cave toward the stream, shivering from a sudden chill. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
In Iowa City, hundreds of homes are buried in what was rolling prairie just a few days ago but is now a mucky lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008] Reference
The mucky edges of the pond gave way to plates of roughly cracked earth that showed how the pond had shrunken since winter. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Erythrina following, and looked for signs of the Mail - man or his friends in the mucky clearings that sur - rounded the pond. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
I had made at least four trips back and forth across the mucky creek, trying to find a way to anchor the rope to the bank itself. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
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