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Re: "OK, yesterday's MUCOUSLY pangram is not a word. I did not..."
interesting. I must've mistyped it because I swear I tried that one despite it not being in MW.
2023-08-28 · 5 months ago
OK, yesterday's MUCOUSLY pangram is not a word. I did not realize that MUCUS (pronounced same as 'mucous') is the noun, and MUCOUS is a derived adjective. Some related words are MUCOID and MUCULENT. For some reason there are no adverb forms listed - even though a similarly constructed LUCULENT (lucid) seems to allow LUCULENTLY. And SUCCULENTLY...