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
  • My one big gripe with this season has always been the location of the tribe camps, which were basically mud pits.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The animal was about a foot long and used its head, rather than its arms, to dig into the mud.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Lovick, with friends Je-Quan Irving and Floyd Washington, cleaned out the muck and stocked the puddle with a 50-bag of goldfish from the neighborhood pet store.
    The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The mire covering Alicia Montero is the signature uniform of the impromptu army of volunteers who for a third day Friday shoveled and swept out the muck and debris that filled the small town of Chiva in Valencia after flash floods swept through the region.
    Teresa Medrano, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • And far, far above the waves, skydivers soar over lush terrain as the Indian Ocean glimmers ahead, offering rare shoreline landings on white sands.
    Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
  • One boy makes a line in the sand to mark out the pitch.
    Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After testing in snow, sludge, sleet, and icy conditions, these are the best ice scrapers that PEOPLE tested.
    Camryn Rabideau, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Torrents of poisonous sludge pouring through collapsed tailings dams have contaminated waterways in Brazil, Canada, and elsewhere and killed hundreds of people—in addition to the hundreds, possibly thousands, of miners who die in workplace accidents each year.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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