Definition: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Usage: muddy boots; a mucky stable
Similar words: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: waterlogged, quaggy, swampy, mucky, muddy, miry, boggy, marshy, soggy, squashy, sloppy, sloughy
Definition: (of soil) soft and watery
Usage: 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
Similar words: wet
Definition: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
Usage: a wet bathing suit; wet sidewalks; wet weather