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muddyish

muddyish adjective: somewhat muddy.

Adjective

muddyish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat muddy.
    • Which in my fountain was, is muddyish, scant, and low.1823, Henry Pellatt, Sprees of the Hall: Of Casualty, a Poem
    • If the ashes which remain are red, mix ed with particles of charcoal, and especially if they form a muddyish water, and the earth does not readily fall down, the soil, whence it was taken, may be advantageously burned.1840, William Hamilton, Memoir on the Cultivation of Wheat within the Tropics, page 70

Origin of muddyish

From muddy + -ish.

Questions about muddyish

What does muddyish mean?
Muddyish means somewhat muddy.
What part of speech is muddyish?
Muddyish is an adjective.

Words near muddyish in the dictionary

  1. muddying
  2. muddying the water
  3. muddying the waters
  4. muddying up
  5. muddyings
  6. muddyish
  7. Muddyman
  8. Mudeford
  9. mudeo
  10. MUDer
  11. MUDers

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