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adj
Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fusty, rotten, lubricous, mucal, lentous, glutinous, gooey, slabby, stiff, syrupy, thick, thickflowing, treacly, viscid, viscose, viscous
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Rotten, bad, worthless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: junky, no good, two-bit, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-der. Proto-Italic *moukos Latin mūcusdenom. Latin mūceō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin mūcidusbor. English mucid Borrowed from Latin mucidus, from Latin mucus (“mucus”). See mucus, and compare moist.
