mud
/mʌd/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Northern England/mʊd/
mud noun: a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
Noun (1)
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.
- 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. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98
- Brown Stuff, or Mud . . . Opium[1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Glossary, page 153
- Heroin.
- Lean.
- real property in English Land Law
Verb (1)
mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)
Noun (2)
- 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.
Verb (2)
mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)
- 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 frequently treated differently[…]1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153
Noun (3) capitalized: MUD
MUD (plural MUDs)
- Acronym of multi-user dungeon, an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.
Proper noun capitalized: MUD
MUD
- Democratic Unity Roundtable, a coalition of opposition political parties in Venezuela.
- The local branch of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) announced its intention to disrupt the MUD rally at a press conference the day before; municipal vehicles were laid on to take the chavistas out there.2012 September 29, “Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2020
mud meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mud in Hindi
- mixture of soil and water
- कीचड़ kīcaṛ, पंक paṅk
mud in Tamil
- mixture of soil and water
- சேறு cēṟu
mud in Marathi
- mixture of soil and water
- चिखल cikhal
mud in Urdu
- mixture of soil and water
- کیچڑ kīcaṛ
More languagesFewer languages
- mud in Bengali
- কাদা kada
- mud in Telugu
- బురద burada, అడుసు aḍusu
- mud in Malayalam
- ചെളി ceḷi, ചേറ് cēṟŭ
- mud in Kannada
- ಕೆಸರಿನ
- mud in Punjabi
- ਚਿੱਕਡ਼
- mud in Gujarati
- કાદવ
- mud in Odia
- କାଦୁଅ
- mud in Assamese
- বোকা büka
- mud in Nepali
- हिलो hilo
- mud in Tagalog
- putik
- mud in Arabic
- طِين ṭīn, وَحْل waḥl
- mud in Malay
- lumpur
- mud in Indonesian
- lumpur
- mud in Persian
- گل gel
- mud in Thai
- โคลน kloon, เลน leen
- mud in Vietnamese
- bùn, sình
- mud in Myanmar
- ရွှံ့ hrwam., ဗွက် bwak
Examples of mud in a sentence
- The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
- She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
- We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
Synonyms of mud
Forms of mud
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | muds |
| plural | mudden |
| plural | MUDs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | muds |
| present participle | mudding |
| past participle | mudded |
| past | mudded |
Origin of mud
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”)).
From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.
From MUD.
Words formed from mud
- MUDder
- as happy as a pig in mud
- bemud
- big ball of mud
- 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
- mudbug
- mud butt
- mud cake
- mudcaked
- mudcap
- mud carp
- mudcat
- mudcloth
- mud cone
- mud cookie
- mudcovered
- mud crab
- mudcrack
- mud cracking
- mud-crusher
- mud dauber
- mudden
- muddily
- muddish
- mud dome
- mud dragon
- mud drum
- mud duck
- mud-dwelling
- muddy
- muddy the waters
- mud eel
- mudeo
- mud-eye
- mud fence
- mud fever
- mud fight
- mudfish
- mudflap
Phrases with mud
112 more phrasesFewer phrases
- mud eels
- mud flap
- mud flat
- mud flow
- mud hens
- Mud Lake
- mud maps
- mud pies
- mud plug
- mud pool
- mud pots
- mud pump
- mud ring
- mud room
- mud runs
- mud scow
- mud slab
- mud sled
- mud wasp
- mud baths
- mud cakes
- mud cones
- mud crabs
- mud domes
- mud drums
- mud ducks
- mud flaps
- mud flats
- mud flood
- mud plugs
- mud pools
- mud pumps
- mud puppy
- mud rooms
- mud scows
- mud sedge
- mud shark
- mud skate
- mud slabs
- mud sleds
- mud slide
- mud snake
- mud wasps
- mud water
- pluff mud
- quick mud
- mud fights
- mud kicker
- mud minnow
- mud monkey
- mud riding
- mud season
- mud sedges
- mud sharks
- mud skates
- mud slides
- mud snakes
- mud sticks
- mud turtle
- mud waters
- mud boggers
- mud cookies
- mud daubers
- mud dragons
- mud kickers
- mud kitchen
- mud lobster
- mud machine
- mud monkeys
- mud puppies
- mud seasons
- mud slogger
- mud student
- mud sunfish
- mud turtles
- mud volcano
- mud kitchens
- mud lobsters
- mud machines
- mud plantain
- mud purslane
- mud sharking
- mud sloggers
- mud students
- mud volcanos
- mud wrestler
- mud plantains
- mud volcanoes
- mud wrestlers
- mud wrestling
- Mud Pie Island
- big balls of mud
- grass mud horses
- mud pie argument
- stick in the mud
- stuck in the mud
- Oaxaca mud turtle
- one's name is mud
- sticks in the mud
- mud on one's boots
- Mexican mud turtles
- mud wrestler's rash
- Vallarta mud turtle
- Mississippi mud pies
- Vallarta mud turtles
- drags through the mud
- dragged through the mud
- rough-footed mud turtle
- dragging through the mud
- rough-footed mud turtles
- throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
- throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
Words that rhyme with mud
Questions about mud
- What does mud mean?
- Mud means a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- What is mud in Hindi?
- Mud in Hindi is कीचड़ (kīcaṛ), पंक (paṅk). See Mud meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mud?
- Mud can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mud?
- Mud is pronounced /mʌd/.
- What is the plural of mud?
- The plural of mud is muds.
Words near mud in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mud (page history and authors); MUD (page history and authors); mud (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mud (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mud (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mud (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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