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
  • While Virgin Voyages features a large spa with several water features, a quartz treatment bed, and a mud room, Celebrity has expanded the wellness theme outside the spa.
    Michele Robson, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Even when encountering damp grass or bits of mud, the beefy, notched wheels never showed signs of traction loss.
    Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Iowa native’s canny array of cinematic offerings brought the Film Center out of the muck of the pandemic.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2025
  • Over two decades, Tindall has worked by Howe’s side, from the muck and nettles of fourth-tier Bournemouth to a trophy and qualification for the Champions League at Newcastle.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Next door is the optional adjoining Suite Jaune d’Or bathed in the golden tones of Marrakech’s desert sands, where elephants march around ceilings in sculpted relief.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Forty yards of sand lay between Groveacher, a barking, brown, 200-pound adolescent male sea lion, and the ocean.
    Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But editorial indulgence has resulted in such a sludge of footnotes and block quotes that the eye must often dismount and continue on foot.
    Book Marks August 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Blood is a surprisingly complicated fluid, in part because the red blood cells in human blood can form long chains, giving it the consistency of sludge.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Guck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guck. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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