Mucky vs Messy - What's the difference?
mucky | messy |
(colloquial) Covered in muck.
(colloquial) Obscene, pornographic.
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
As an adjective mucky
is (colloquial) covered in muck.As a noun messy is
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(er)Quotations
(covered in muck ): * 1991 : Tell them if you want a mucky oven cleaned before the visit as special steam-cleaning equipment may be needed. Ideal Home , South Bank Publishing group (obscene ): * 1992 : The mucky message carried the name of a constable at the top. — The Daily Mirror , Mirror Group NewspapersDerived terms
* mucky pupmessy
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(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}