synovial, Vulgar, snotty; soft, moist, slimy, clammy, slithery, Sl. icky, Sl. yechy; viscid, gelatinous, Inf gooey, Sl. ishy.
muck, n. 1. dung, manure, ordure, compost, night soil; excrement, feces, leavings, droppings, guano, Chiefly Midwestern, flops.
2. slop, wash, hogwash, swill, wallow, sough; sewage, matter, draff, bilge; scum, smudge, feculence, dross, gumbo; filth, dirt, grime, sludge, mire, mud, ooze; slush, squash, slime, mess, sordes, Irish, slob, Inf glop, Inf. gunk, Inf. goo.
mucky, adj. 1. muddy, oozy, miry, quagmiry; sloshy, slushy, sloppy, sludgy, squelchy; squashy, squishy, soft, splashy, plashy; feculent, foul, turbid, fetid, reeky; fecal, excrementitious, Physiol, stercora-ceous.
2. filthy, dirty, grimy, smudgy, soiled, smeared, stained, begrimed, sooty; unwashed, piggish, sleazy, squalid, wretched, dingy, miserable, Sl. slummy.
mud, n. ooze, muck, mire, silt, clay, slush, sludge, gumbo; slime, squash, Irish, slob, swill, slop, slosh; quagmire, fen, bog, swamp, marsh, morass; quicksand, wallow, slough, Brit, sough, Brit. Dial. sump.
muddle, v. 1. mix, mix up, jumble, jumble together, throw together, tumble; scramble, tangle, ensnarl; clutter, litter, turn upside-down, mess, mess up, make a mess of; disarrange, derange, disorder, disarray, disorganize.
2. botch, bungle, blunder, bobble, fumble, Inf. flub, mismanage, mishandle; spoil, mar, butcher, murder; make a hash of, mix up, Sl. screw up, Sl. louse up, Sl. ball up, Sl. bollix up, Sl. gum up, Sl. gum up the works, Sl. foul up.
3. confuse, confound, perplex, bewilder, puzzle, nonplus, mystify, baffle, pose, obfuscate, befog, buffalo, Sl. snow.
4. (all with intoxicants) stupefy, addle, fuddle, befuddle; intoxicate, inebriate, besot, make drunk, Inf light up, Inf. put under the table; All Sl. plaster, pollute, souse, stew, crock, swack, pickle, stone, sozzle, booze up, liquor up, likker up.
5. muddle through manage, contrive, make out, Inf. get on or along, scrape along, manage somehow; make one's way, work one's way, press on.
-n. 6. confusion, perplexity, bewilderment, bafflement, mystification, Brit. Dial, swither; stupefaction, uncertainty, demoralization, sixes and sevens; distraction, daze, haze, fog, Psychiatry, disorientation.
7. disorder, disarray, disorganization, disarrangement, derangement, hugger-mugger, confusedness; jumble, mess, tangle, Inf. stew, mix-up, snafu, Inf foul-up, Sl. screw-up, Sl. louse-up, Sl. ballup, Brit. Sl. balls-up; clutter, litter, Fibber McGee's closet; hodgepodge, Brit, hotchpotch, mishmash, conglomeration.
muddled, adj. 1. jumbled, tangled, snarled, en-snarled, mixed-up, all mixed-up, jumbled together, thrown together; disorganized, disorderly, in disorder, in disarray, disarranged, deranged, at sixes and sevens, hugger-mugger, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy, Sl. arsy-varsy.
2. botched, bungled, blundered, bobbled, fumbled, Inf flubbed, mishandled, mismanaged; spoiled, spoilt, ruined, marred, butchered, murdered; All Sl. screwed-up, loused-up, fouled-up, balled-up, bollixed-up, mucked-up, gummed-up.
3. confused, confounded, mystified, perplexed, baffled, bewildered, nonplused, buffaloed; uncertain, unsure, at sea, adrift, at a loss; discomposed, flustered, aflutter, Inf. discombobulated, dazed, Archaic, be-mazed; disoriented, fuzzy, in a fog, in a daze, in a stupor, Inf. muzzy, Inf spaced or spaced out, Inf. out of it, Sl. in the ozone, Sl. in another zone.
