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mudsills

mudsills is the plural of mudsill.

Meaning of mudsill

Noun

mudsill (plural mudsills)

  1. The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
  2. (figuratively) A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
    • The Pre-Historic Era was the mudsill of human development.
  3. (Southern US, dated) A person of low status or humble provenance.
    • We were now miserable mercenaries, serving for low pay and rough rations. Read the Southern papers and you will see us described. “Mudsills,” — that, I believe, is the technical word.1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath

Questions about mudsills

What is mudsills the plural of?
Mudsills is the plural of mudsill.

Words near mudsills in the dictionary

  1. mudshark
  2. mudsharked
  3. mudsharking
  4. mudsharks
  5. mudsill
  6. mudsills
  7. mudskipper
  8. mudskippers
  9. mudsled
  10. mudsleds
  11. mudslide

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