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See also: MUD, müd, muð, and múď

Translingual

Symbol

mud

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mednyj Aleut.

See also

English

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Churned-up mud (sense 1)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (mud), Middle High German mot (mud), Swedish modd (slush). Compare also suffixed variants West Frisian modder (mud), Dutch modder (mud), German Low German Mudder (mud), German Moder (moldiness, mildew, decay), English mother (vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol), Danish mudder (mud). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (mud), Northern Sami mođđi (mud), Erzya мода (moda, earth, ground) from Proto-Uralic *muďa).

Noun

mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)

  1. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
  2. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
  3. (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
  4. (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
    The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.
  5. (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
  6. (gay sex, slang) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
  7. (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  8. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
    • 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown:
      That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.
    • 2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:
      How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities
  9. Drilling fluid.
  10. (slang, originally US) Coffee.
  11. (slang) Opium.
  12. (slang) Heroin.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

  1. (transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
  2. (transitive) To make turbid.
  3. (intransitive) To go under the mud, as an eel does.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.

Noun

mud (plural muds or mudden)

  1. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
  2. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
  3. (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From MUD.

Verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

  1. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
    • 1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153:
      Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently

References

  1. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.

Further reading

Anagrams

Breton

Adjective

mud

  1. mute

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mudde, from Latin modius (bushel).

Pronunciation

Noun

mud n (plural mudden, diminutive mudje n or muddeken n)

  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 of potatoes
  2. a wooden container having such content; again used as measure for bulk wares sold in it, such as cereals
  3. a land measure, presumably supposedly the area sown with that much seed
  4. a small measure for liquids, about 1 deciliter

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: mud

Indonesian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مُدّ (mudd, a certain dry measure)

Noun

mud (plural mud-mud)

  1. (Islam) a dry measure (for dates, water, grains, and other things) varying in size, roughly around 510 grams
    Satu sha' setara dengan empat mudOne ṣāʿ is equivalent to 4 mudd

Further reading

Sumerian

Romanization

mud

  1. romanization of 𒄷𒄭 (mud)

Volapük

Pronunciation

Noun

mud

  1. mouth

Declension

Declension of mud
singular plural
nominative mud muds
genitive muda mudas
dative mude mudes
accusative mudi mudis
vocative 1 o mud! o muds!
predicative 2 mudu mudus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh mut, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉd, from Latin mūtus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mud (feminine singular mud, plural mudion, not comparable)

  1. mute, dumb, silent (unable or unwilling to speak)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of mud
radical soft nasal aspirate
mud fud unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mud”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies