Definition of MUD

mud

Plural: mudden, muds

Noun

  • water soaked soil; soft wet earth
  • slanderous remarks or charges
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Drilling fluid.
  • Coffee.
  • Opium.
  • Heroin.
  • 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

Verb Forms: mudded, mudding, muds

  • To cover or dirty with soft, wet earth.
  • soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • plaster with mud
  • To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
  • To make turbid.
  • To go under the mud, as an eel does.
  • To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.

Examples

  • She hoped to mud the board with confusing short words, preventing her opponent’s bingos.
  • The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.

Origin / Etymology

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 West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), 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).

Synonyms

clay, mire, muck, muck up, Dutch bushel, bushel, muid

Scrabble Score: 6

mud: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
mud: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mud: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

mud: valid Words With Friends Word