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mud
[ muhd ]
noun
- wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- Informal. scandalous or malicious assertions or information:
The opposition threw a lot of mud at our candidate.
- Slang. brewed coffee, especially when strong or bitter.
- a mixture of chemicals and other substances pumped into a drilling rig chiefly as a lubricant for the bit and shaft.
verb (used with object)
- to cover, smear, or spatter with mud:
to mud the walls of a hut.
- to stir up the mud or sediment in:
waders mudding the clear water.
verb (used without object)
- to hide in or burrow into mud.
mud
/ ʌ /
noun
- a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc
- informal.slander or defamation
- clear as mud informal.not at all clear
- drag someone's name in the mudto disgrace or defame someone
- here's mud in your eye informal.a humorous drinking toast
- someone's name is mud informal.someone is disgraced
- throw mud at or sling mud at informal.to slander; vilify
verb
- tr to soil or cover with mud
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ܻd adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of mud1
Idioms and Phrases
see clear as mud ; name is mud ; sling mud at .Example Sentences
When reading a statement she had previously made to the police, she became emotional as she described the mud slide being like a "lava flow".
The rescue took place just before the season’s first rainstorm, which is believed to have buried the remaining trout in mud.
Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.
The head of Lanzarote's emergency services told local media some homes had been submerged, with floodwaters leaving behind a "great quantity of mud".
I only have to glance at them now to remember all the times I’d make an entrance through the mud room, head straight to the coffee pot and pour some into one of those mugs.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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