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musky

[muhs-kee] / ˈmʌs ki /
ADJECTIVE
like a pungent sweet odor
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The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", and would chase her young children, knocking them down.

From BBC Apr. 26, 2024

What outrageous crimes did the goat, whom she described as “disgusting, musky, rancid,” commit other than needing a bath?

From Salon Apr. 26, 2024

Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills , I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2024

The plant uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats that usually feed and lay their eggs on mushrooms into their cup-shaped flowers.

From Science Daily Feb. 19, 2024

I ran up the steps and entered the dark, musky church.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

It also raises bass, walleye, catfish, bluegills and tiger muskies.

From Seattle Times Apr. 8, 2023

Along with being one of the most difficult fish to catch, muskies are the largest freshwater fish in Maryland.

From Washington Times Mar. 23, 2022

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From Washington Post Jul. 17, 2011

I knew then that muskies would be part of my life.”

From New York Times Oct. 23, 2010

Then again, the place looked kind of fishy, don’t you know; and I had an idea we might pick up some large muskies.

From Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Arundel, Louis

Other nocturnal blossoms deploy scents like siren calls: The creamy whorls of the moonflower vine hint at vanilla and sunscreen, while the heavy bells of brugmansia are franker and muskier in aura, verging on narcotic.

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2021

When a coach invokes “swagger,” the muskiest and most meaningless of intangibles, it means one of two things.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2010

Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive



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