Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Profuse sweat.
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Examples
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In India it is in some way evil to spend a day without being once in a muck-sweat.
Burmese Days 2002
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Of course they've had a few cases of the pilot baling out in a muck-sweat from sheer panic.
The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968
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George, the umpteenth baronet, is in a muck-sweat.
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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The next morning, a strenuous climb up a series of serpentine switchbacks ensured we started the day caked in a muck-sweat, with our blood pounding in our ears.
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It was you, I suggest, who insisted upon doing it because you were in a muck-sweat wanting to find out where the amended Chapter 7 of your father’s memoirs might be.
Scales of Justice Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1955
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