mud
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
Noun
- 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.
- That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers. - 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown:
- How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […] - 2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:
- Drilling fluid.
- Coffee.
- Opium.
- Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart. - 1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S....
- Brown Stuff, or Mud . . . Opium - [1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Glossary, page 153:
- Heroin.
Origin
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”)).
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as happy as a pig in mud bemud black mud clear as mud drag through the mud giant mud crab grass mud horse happy as a pig in mud here's mud in your eye magic mud Mexican mud turtle Mississippi mud pie mud and stud mud army mudball mudbank mud bath mud biscuit mudboat mud bog mud bogger mud bogging mudbrick mudbucket
Noun historical
- 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.
Origin
From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.
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Verb Entry 3
- To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
- To make turbid.
- To go under the mud, as an eel does.
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Verb Internet, intransitive
- To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
- 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...
Origin
From MUD.