mud.
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
Meaning & usage
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.
Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
A black person.
Drilling fluid.
Coffee.
Opium.
Heroin.
Lean.
real property in English Land Law
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), Danish mudder (“mud”). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), Erzya мода (moda, “earth, ground”) from Proto-Uralic *muďa (“earth”)).
To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
To make turbid.
To go under the mud, as an eel does.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), Danish mudder (“mud”). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), Erzya мода (moda, “earth, ground”) from Proto-Uralic *muďa (“earth”)).
A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
Where this word comes from
From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.
To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
Where this word comes from
From MUD.
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