Mud

Noun

 * 1) A dirty mixture of water and soil.
 * 2) A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
 * 3)  Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
 * 4)  Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
 * 5)  Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.

Verb

 * 1)  To make muddy, dirty
 * 2)  To make turbid

Adjectives for Mud
gurgling; oozing; sticky; flung; black; tenacious; dragging; poisonous; treacherous; viscous; sluggish; slimy; clinging; great; ancient; sloshing; hopeless; frozen; fertilizing; dense; respectable; spattered; caked; dried; jellylike.

Verbs for Mud
bake—; bathe in—; bespatter with—; bog in—; cake—; dabble in—; daub with—; emerge from—; flounder in—; lodge in—; mire in—; plod through—; roll in—; sling ——; spatter with—; steep in—; swash through—; wade through—; wallow in—; —cakes; —gurgles; —spatters; —sucks.

Thesaurus
swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, wallow, wash, baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, clay, dirt, dust, everglade, fen, fenland, glade, grime, gumbo, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muck, mud flat, muddle, muddy, ooze, peat bog, quagmire, quicksand, rile, salt marsh, slime, slip, slob, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, smut, soot, sough, squash, sump, swale,

Etymology
Unattested in Old English; probably cognate with (or perhaps directly borrowed from) modde,  modde, mudde (Low German Mudd), (Dutch modder).

Derived terms
muddily, muddy, mud dauber, mudguard, mud puppy, mudsill, mudslinger, mudstone, mud turtle.

Related terms

 * muddle

Noun

 * Afrikaans: modder
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ցեխ
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: fank, pri
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ဗွက်
 * Catalan: fang, llot
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 坭 (ní)
 * Crimean Tatar: şamır
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , smurrie
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: λάσπη (laspi), πηλός (pilos) , βόρβορος (vorvoros) , γύψος (gypsos)
 * Hebrew: בץ (botz)
 * Hindi: कीचड़
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: fango
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 泥 (どろ, doro)
 * Khmer: (pūək)
 * Korean: 진흙 (jinheuk)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dubļi
 * Lithuanian: dumblas
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:, , leire
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: noroi
 * Russian: грязь (grjaz’), слякоть (sljákot’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: блато, муљ , глиб , каљ
 * Roman: blato, mulj , glib , kalj
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: lera, gyttja
 * Tamil: சேறு (cēṟu)
 * Telugu: బురద(burada)(1),ఆడుసు(aDusu)(2)
 * Thai: (klohn)
 * Tswana:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: llaca, llaid, llwtra
 * !Xóõ: ǂqʻáa ká
 * !Xóõ: ǂqʻáa ká


 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Italian: fango

Verb

 * Dutch: beslijken, verslijken, besmeuren


 * Romanian: noroi, înnămoli

Anagrams

 * DMU

Adjective
mud


 * 1) mute

Noun

 * 1) An old measure of volume, varying in content over time and regions; nowadays usually 1 hectoliter
 * ''Een mud is zo'n 70 kilo aardappelen
 * ''One mud is about 70 kg potatoes
 * 1) A wooden container having such content; again used as measure for bulk wares sold in it, such as cereals
 * 2) A land measure, presumably supposedly the area sown which that much seed
 * 3) A small measure for liquids, about 1 deciliter

Alternative forms

 * mudde

Etymology
Ultimately from modius 'bushel'

Derived terms

 * mudderecht
 * mudszak
 * korenmud