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Webster 1913 Edition
Mud
Mud
(mŭd)
, Noun.
[Akin to LG.
mudde
, D. modder
, G. moder
mold, OSw. modd
mud, Sw. modder
mother, Dan. mudder
mud. Cf. Mother
a scum on liquors.] Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
Mud bass
(Zool.)
, a fresh-water fish (
– Acantharchum pomotis
or Acantharchus pomotis
) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. Mud bath
, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease.
– Mud boat
, a large flatboat used in dredging.
– Mud cat
. See
– mud cat
in the vocabulary. Mud crab
(Zool.)
, any one of several American marine crabs of the genus
– Panopeus
. Mud dab
(Zool.)
, – Mud dauber
(Zool.)
, a mud wasp; the
– mud-dauber
. Mud devil
(Zool.)
, the fellbender.
– Mud drum
(Steam Boilers)
, a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal.
– Mud eel
(Zool.)
, a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (
– Siren lacertina
), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren
. Mud frog
(Zool.)
, a European frog (
– Pelobates fuscus
). Mud hen
. (Zool.)
(a)
The American coot (
. Fulica Americana
)(b)
The clapper rail.
– Mud lark
, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud.
[Slang]
– Mud minnow
(Zool.)
, any small American fresh-water fish of the genus
– Umbra
, as Umbra limi
. The genus is allied to the pickerels. Mud plug
, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
– Mud puppy
(Zool.)
, the menobranchus.
– Mud scow
, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat.
[U.S.]
– Mud turtle
,
Mud tortoise
(Zool.)
, any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
– Mud wasp
(Zool.)
, any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to
Pepaeus
, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber
.Mud
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bury in mud.
[R.]
Shak.
2.
To make muddy or turbid.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mud
MUD
,Noun.
MUD
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.Definition 2024
mud
mud
English
Noun
mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- (gay sex, slang) stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown
- That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.
- 2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead
- How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]
- 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown
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Translations
mixture of soil and water
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Verb
mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)
- (transitive) To make muddy, dirty
- (transitive) To make turbid
- (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD, or multi-user dungeon.
- 1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community (page 153)
- Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently […]
- 1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community (page 153)
Translations
to make muddy
Anagrams
References
- ↑ Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
Dutch
Alternative forms
- mudde
Pronunciation
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin modius (“bushel”).
Noun
mud n (plural mudden, diminutive mudje n or muddeken n)
- An old measure of volume, varying in content over time and regions; nowadays usually 1 hectoliter
- Een mud is zo'n 70 kilo aardappelen
- One mud is about 70 kg potatoes
- Een mud is zo'n 70 kilo aardappelen
- A wooden container having such content; again used as measure for bulk wares sold in it, such as cereals
- A land measure, presumably supposedly the area sown which that much seed
- A small measure for liquids, about 1 deciliter
Derived terms
- mudderecht n
- mudszak m
- korenmud n