well, in honor of this quasi-holiday, here is a quasi-rude word:
mucking - Euphemistically (chiefly in written work) ppl. a. Cf. muck v. Also as quasi-adv.
1929 R. Aldington Death of Hero iii. x. 375 What the muckin' hell are you doing, down there? 1933 H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup vi. 237 Don't be a mucking fool! Ibid. 241 Do you think we want to sit round telling ghost stories in this mucking hole? 1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. xiii. 277 And if I ever hit you I'll break your mucking jaw. 1942 Penguin New Writing XV. 19 I'll miss the silly mucker... Poor old Bob. Went down with his mucking duffle. 1946 D. Hamson We fell among Greeks v. 61 By Christ, it's that mucking dog. 1974 R. Adams Shardik xxxvi. 301 You'd better lend him a hand... We'll be 'alf the mucking night else. Ibid. xlv. 363 The first man peered in his turn. ‘He mucking is, too,’ he said. ‘Aren't you?’
