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
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Noun
  • The exterior is made of water-resistant suede to shield your toes from water, snow, and mud, and the padded heel collar prevents ankle blisters.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The bottom can also at times be limestone, not squishy mud, which again contributes to the unique coloring.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This season, the valley bottom is still soggy with slush and muck—difficult conditions to work in for forester and fourth-generation Idaho local Chad Ramsay.
    Katie Bradish, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Inside mountains like these are crushed up bits of black-shale formations, which form from the organic muck accumulated at the bottom of seas, heated and compressed over time.
    Justin Nobel, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The pumping of groundwater that seeps into construction sites could also cause sand layers to shift and rearrange.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The fun-seeking surfer, whose sunset silhouette on the famous movie poster defined a generation and whose fashion choices rubbed off on most everyone around him, parlayed his passion for waves into a lifetime of sand and sport on beaches across the globe.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sewage sludge has now been spread on millions of acres across the country.
    Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Despite the film’s best efforts to melt its characters into the vast sludge of superhero cinema, the union between Eddie and Venom is simply too pure to be diluted down to nothing.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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