mucid

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mucidus, from Latin mucus (mucus). See mucus, and compare moist.

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Adjective

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mucid (comparative more mucid, superlative most mucid)

  1. (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.
  2. (figurative, now rare) Rotten, bad, worthless.

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