mud
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mud/mʌd/
▶noun
- 1 soft, sticky matter consisting of mixed earth and water.
- 2 damaging information or allegations.
– phrases
drag someone through the mud denigrate someone publicly.
here's mud in your eye! informal used as a toast.
someone's name is mud informal someone is in disgrace or unpopular.
drag someone through the mud denigrate someone publicly.
here's mud in your eye! informal used as a toast.
someone's name is mud informal someone is in disgrace or unpopular.
– origin ME: prob. from Mid. Low Ger. mudde.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
MUD/mʌd/
▶noun a computer-based text or virtual reality game involving several players.
– origin 1980s: from multi-user dungeon or dimension.
'mud' also found in these Oxford entries:
bemire
- burbot
- claggy
- clart
- dashboard
- dirt
- dredge
- fango
- flounder
- geoduck
- gyttja
- hopper
- house martin
- lahar
- lungfish
- mire
- moil
- muck
- MUD
- mudbank
- mudbath
- muddle
- muddy
- mudfish
- mudflap
- mudflow
- mudlark
- mud pack
- mud puppy
- mud-slinging
- mudstone
- nostalgie de la boue
- off-kilter
- ooze
- ovenbird
- pan
- patrol
- pelite
- pollute
- puddle
- quant
- ripple marks
- shale
- slob
- slobber
- sludge
- slur
- slurry
- slush
