mud

noun
mŭd

A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.

Other meanings

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.”

Synonyms

clay

A kind of

soil

Example sentences

“Pigs bathe in mud to stay cool.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“The rain and the mud have made him dirty.”
Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Word history

From Middle Low German "mudde".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “mud” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.