guck

variants or gook
as in mud
soft wet earth don't walk on that clean floor with guck on your shoes

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Recent Examples of guck The water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck. Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022 Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse. Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019 Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending. Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guck
Noun
  • In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near the Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
  • This time-lapse shows floodwater, mud and debris spilling into the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin, located near the Eaton Fire burn scar.
    Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rory McIlroy lifted it out of the muck yet somehow controlled the 88-yard shot so well the ball caught the back of the green and spun back to 6 inches from the pin.
    Brody Miller, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • His character, Leclerc, is a member of the mission's team, and photos show him in the muck alongside Zora and Duncan.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Something about watching the sunset with your toes in the sand just hits different.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Those moments in between the monuments linger with me the most: watching the setting sun light each grain of sand into an ocean of fire on a desert walk outside the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila.
    Matt Dutile, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There 100% would've been road bumps and conflicts, but not this agonizingly repetitive sludge.
    Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The document indicated the waste may have included alum mud — a potentially radioactive sludge and byproduct of aluminum processing.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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