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 on the Web 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 cavernous main gallery is a maze of shadows and imitation mud walls, where masks look out from between oversized photographs of tropical vegetation.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The tarot sesh was interrupted by another return to the tunnels (but even earlier!), soon after Lilia and Jen first tumbled trough the mud.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Teen’s hands begin to spark with pale blue magic, which commands Jennifer and Lilia (Patti LuPone) to grab Agatha and throw her into the muck just outside the Witches’ Road.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Then there was the infamous Swamps of Sadness sequence where Atreyu’s trusty white stallion Artax sinks to his death in sticky, foggy, muck.
    Simon Bland, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • LaSalle County in north central Illinois sits on rich deposits of silica sand, the optimal ingredient for a pressurized cocktail of sand, water and chemicals that is essential for fracking.
    Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • If an ant is trapped in sand, its fellow-ants will attempt to save its life, pulling on its limbs and digging away at the sand to try to free it.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Earlier this year, the Missouri Legislature passed laws prohibiting the operation of three sludge lagoons in Newton, McDonald and Randolph counties.
    Randal Seyler, arkansasonline.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Apart from album releases and tours, the rock supergroup Tomahawk and the NOLA sludge outfit Acid Bath are slated to be making reunions at Sick New World 2025.
    Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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