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
  • Hackman was discovered in the mud room, adjacent to the kitchen, with his sunglasses at his side.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Vacuum and spot-shampoo the carpeting and carpeted floor mats using a home rug-cleaning spray to avoid permanent stains from ground-in mud or road salt.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • My boots, parked neatly outside, were now buried in muck, along with my pride and my chances of a comfy day on the bike.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Rory McIlroy lifted it out of the muck yet somehow controlled the 88-yard shot so well the ball caught the back of the green and spun back to 6 inches from the pin.
    Brody Miller, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While Vigna La Delizia enjoys south-east exposure and has soils rich in calcareous marl and clay, Vigna La Villa faces due east and features silt, sand, and clay soils.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The sand that will be sucked up from the lagoon bottom will be placed on Cardiff State Beach in front of the Chart House restaurant.
    Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The return of sludge haulers have made a difference for Andrea Chiarella’s daily walks.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Soon, snowmen will soon melt into brown piles of sludge and green grass will appear again.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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