Muddy Mississippi

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English

The brown, sediment-heavy Mississippi River in South Louisiana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʌdi ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/

Proper noun

the Muddy Mississippi

  1. (informal) The Mississippi River, in particular downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River.
    • Skinker, Thomas J., et al. "DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR A GREATER ST. LOUIS, MO.." Journal (American Water Works Association) 22.12 (1930): 1583-1608.
      The source of the supply was the "Muddy Mississippi River."
    • Publicover, Laurence. "Pericles’s Humming Waters: Nonhuman Agency, Textual Criticism, and the Practice of Material Ecocriticism." Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 280-302
      When Cohen speaks of the “desire of the Muddy Mississippi … to pour into the Atchafalaya River and surge into the Gulf a few hundred miles west of its current delta
    • Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Prismatic ecology: Ecotheory beyond green. U of Minnesota Press, 2013.
      The Muddy Mississippi is the brown river, a place of interstices