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mud
  1. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
  2. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
  3. (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
  4. (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
  5. (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
  6. (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  7. (derogatory) A black person.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Shallow species live among sponges, stones, or coral, or under the sand or mud, with only their arms protruding.”
mudhole
  1. A hole full of mud, especially one in a road
  2. A hole near the bottom of a steam boiler, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The well broke down while I was visiting, and I came across a family drinking filthy, unfiltered water collected from a mudhole.”
      “Before you can stomp a mudhole in some poor jabroni and walk it dry, you've got to learn a little something about the 40-plus superstars that are in the game.”
      “I worked for some white people and then went to Houston and it wasn't nothing but a mudhole.”
muddler
  1. A person or thing that muddles.
  2. A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “People get lazy, looking for a savior, and instead just end up with another muddler.”
      “Nothing beats seeing a fish chase a muddler as you strip it across the surface.”
      “For this you will need rum, sugar, fresh mint, lime, soda water and a muddler.”
mudflat
  1. Coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by the tides or rivers, sea, and oceans, and exposed at low tide.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The boundary between the mudflat and the retreating marsh is a unique environment.”
      “Submerged vegetation consisted of dense beds of eelgrass or green algae which occurred on intertidal mudflat habitat.”
      “It might be broken down even further, to become part of the silty sediment of a mudflat.”
mudbrick
  1. Adobe brick; unfired brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dressed in riot gear and bunched together, they are hugging the wall of a mudbrick house ready to kick in the door.”
      “Source: Getty Images Coloured reflective glass, a popular feature of new commercial buildings, competes with traditional mudbrick facades.”
      “Archaeologists also found a mudbrick wall on the eastern side of Khafre's valley temple.”
mudbank
  1. An area of mud, possibly submerged, near the edge of a body of water.
  2. Examples:
    1. “When they were out of the water, Redbird picked up a stick and drew a little picture on the mudbank.”
      “The Lifeboat arrived on scene in moderate conditions in a South Easterly 4 to 5, to find the Yacht hard aground on a mudbank at the entrance to the Camplie River.”
      “One boat lay on the mud, disabled, and the dead bodies of several men strewed the mudbank, which the falling tide had left dry.”
mudheap
  1. A heap of mud; by extension, any pile of metaphorical detritus
muddle
  1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Things were in such a muddle that a mother cat would have lost her kittens.”
      “Strewn over a table under a lamp was a muddle of odds and ends such as had littered their mother's bed.”
      “I was in a muddle with a broken-down car before being helped out by some of the kind locals.”
mudstain
  1. A spot or mark of mud that discolors an area.
muddledom
  1. The state or condition of being in a muddle. [from 19th c.]
mudding
  1. Driving an off-road vehicle through muddy terrain.
mudscape
  1. A landscape dominated by mud.
muddling
  1. The act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.
muddying
muddiness
  1. The characteristic of being muddy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After days of heavy rain, the farmers had to deal with the muddiness in their fields before they could start planting the crops.”
      “The muddiness of the water made it difficult to see the fish swimming beneath the surface.”
      “Sometimes when I wake up I have a vague fuzzy feeling of having known that truth, but it soon slips away, to be replaced by fear and muddiness.”
muddledness
muddliness
  1. Quality of being muddly.
mudge
  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) mud; sludge
  2. Examples:
    1. “Twenty-eight-year-old activist John Colonna objects to the mudge.”
      “Nita joins a group of around six other women who all meet at Mudge Seager's house in Birch Street to knit.”
      “Director of Greenwich Observatory, much concerned with the chronometric experiments of Harrison and Mudge.”
mudball
  1. A ball of mud.
mudd
  1. Obsolete spelling of mud
  2. Examples:
    1. “This work embodies the proceedings of a moot court that reviewed the case of Samuel A. Mudd, one of those convicted of participating in the Lincoln Assassination.”
      “A math professor at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., Benjamin has brought his particular brand of prestidigitation to a wide variety of appreciative audiences.”
      “This year's program includes Weezer, Creed, Marianas Trench, Hedley, Theory of a Deadman, Down With Webster, Puddle of Mudd, The Trews, Sloan and illScarlett.”
muddinesses
muddyings
mudstains
  1. plural of mudstain
mudbricks
  1. plural of mudbrick
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Adobe mudbricks were commonly used by the Pueblo Indians to build their homes and other necessary structures.”
muddlings
  1. plural of muddling
mudscapes
  1. plural of mudscape
mudbanks
  1. plural of mudbank
mudholes
  1. plural of mudhole
  2. Examples:
    1. “The road I traveled is all but impassable to motorized vehicles, excepting a trail bike driven by someone who knows how to negotiate mammoth mudholes.”
mudballs
  1. plural of mudball
muddlers
  1. plural of muddler
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Evelyn Waugh might have dismissed them as pathetic muddlers who did not belong in the church.”
      “Rolled muddlers, tied-down minnows, mickey finns, chum and coho fry are just a few of the patterns soon to be presented by eager fly-fishers.”
      “She disappeared into the basement to grab shakers and strainers and muddlers and all the rest of the equipment the class would need to get them through the afternoon session.”
mudflats
  1. plural of mudflat
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Marsh fern, water horehound, spotted touch-me-not, great water dock, and lake sedge live on the soupy mudflats.”
      “Tens of thousands of migrating shorebirds stop on the mudflats during the first week of May as they return to their Arctic breeding grounds.”
      “We stayed in an old whare at Kokoroa at the mouth of the Whangamoa River, an estuarine area with extensive mudflats.”
mudheaps
  1. plural of mudheap
muddles
muds
  1. plural of mud
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The basal conglomerates and the equivalent sands and muds on the interfluves are commonly ferruginized.”
      “It grows on nutrient-poor muds on the edges of ponds, lakes and reservoirs that are exposed when water levels fall.”
      “At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls.”
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