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
  • The fires have been lousy for wildlife as well as humans: Biologists were forced to rescue hundreds of endangered steelhead trout from the Santa Monica Mountains, before a storm arrived to bury them in a post-fire slurry of mud.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Divers faced intense mud and near-zero visibility, despite the aircraft resting in only a few feet of water.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 2 Feb. 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
  • At some points, people visibly struggled to get through, with wheelchairs and strollers getting stuck in the deep sand.
    Abeer Salman, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • King Charles himself ends up visiting one of the libraries during his visit to Kenya and while many on staff wish to draw a line in the sand to stop this event, Shiro and Wachuka know doing so could threaten their ultimate goals.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other Big Stories Sewage sludge, which farmers use as inexpensive fertilizer, contains chemicals that pose health risks, the E.P.A. said.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This energy demand, driven by processes like aeration and sludge treatment, underscores the need for energy-efficient solutions.
    Dan Kelly, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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