mud
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
Noun 3 meanings
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
“The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.”
Verb 4 meanings
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.
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”).
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MUD at a glance
MUD has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (M 3 + U 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,718 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with mud
All rhymes- TALMUD9
- ALMUD8
- BEMUD10
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