mucid
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mucidus, from Latin mucus (“mucus”). See mucus, and compare moist.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mucid (comparative more mucid, superlative most mucid)
- (now rare) Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
- 1913, Bernard Capes, Bag and Baggage, The Soft Seraphic Screen:
- the incessant flurried movement of the flexuous lips, the little spasmodic cough, the mucid vacancy of the shell-fish-like eyes with their inflamed rims, pointed, significantly enough to discrimination, to one clear explanation of her aspect and condition.
- (figurative, now rare) Rotten, bad, worthless.
Derived terms
References
- “mucid, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “mucid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
