Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slimy; moist and moderately viscous.
  • Resembling mucus; mucoid; gelatinous; cellulose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective slimy; moist and moderately viscous

Etymologies

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Latin muculentus, from mucus.

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Examples

  • Then, almost immediately, a mood as perfect as a pearl was fashioned right in the middle of all that superfluous and muculent funk surrounding us all.

    Barack Obama, Green Day and the New Marxism: An Interview With Graham Nash 2010

  • Then, almost immediately, a mood as perfect as a pearl was fashioned right in the middle of all that superfluous and muculent funk surrounding us all.

    Mr. Fish: Barack Obama, Green Day and the New Marxism: An Interview With Graham Nash 2010

  • BR: It is, to the best of my knowledge, unique amongst all fantasy novels ever published in containing the phrase ‘muculent saliva’ I stand ready to be corrected on that, by the way.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Neth 2007

  • BR: It is, to the best of my knowledge, unique amongst all fantasy novels ever published in containing the phrase ‘muculent saliva’ I stand ready to be corrected on that, by the way.

    Neth Space Neth 2007

  • Something muculent sloughed away from his face as he coughed and spluttered the first breaths into his new lungs.

    The Dam Across The Stars Bob Lock 2006

  • Something muculent sloughed away from his face as he coughed and spluttered the first breaths into his new lungs.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Bob Lock 2006

  • How can Congress have an 18 percent approval rating, a 75 percent disapproval rating, and yet virtually every single one of the muculent vermin who are in the party that controls that wildly unpopular entity get sent back to Washington?

    The Common Room 2008

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  • Eew.

    December 14, 2010

  • Wow. A word to describe how I've been feeling lately.

    December 15, 2010

  • Strangely enough, it's also a good word for describing cooked okra.

    December 15, 2010

  • Ruzuzu, that's so accurate I need to "Eew" again.

    Eew.

    C_b: :-(

    December 16, 2010

  • And I end up back with Ruzuzu and her okra. See autophage.

    March 26, 2014

  • Okra is much better when it's breaded and fried. Or pickled, I suppose.

    March 26, 2014

  • I've never had it pickled but I've had it grilled and quite enjoyed it. I had fried pickles for the first time the other day.

    March 26, 2014

  • Cecil Mucophagous
    Stuffed down his esophagus
    Muculent treat
    After muculent treat,
    Pickled or fried;
    It can't be denied -
    His okrish exploits
    Were told far and wide

    March 26, 2014

  • Ha! Brackets around "okrish," please.

    March 26, 2014

  • Yes.

    March 26, 2014

  • Splendid!

    March 26, 2014

  • What a rucus!

    March 27, 2014