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Definition: Mud |
MudNoun1. Water soaked soil; soft wet earth. 2. Slanderous remarks or charges. Verb1. Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden". 2. Plaster with mud. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Mud \Mud\, noun. [Akin to Low German mudde, Dutch modder, German moder mold, OSw. modd mud, Swedish modder mother, Danish mudder mud. Compare to Mothera scum on liquors.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt. Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet. These are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple `locations' like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic system, and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world. 2. vi. To play a MUD. The acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of `going mudding', etc. Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's DEC-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that game still exist today and are sometimes generically called BartleMUDs. There is a widespread myth (repeated, unfortunately, by earlier versions of this lexicon) that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on British Telecom (the motto: "You haven't _lived_ 'til you've _died_ on MUD!"); however, this is false -- Richard Bartle explicitly placed `MUD' in the public domain in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth. Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of these had associated bulletin-board systems for social interaction. Because these had an image as `research' they often survived administrative hostility to BBSs in general. This, together with the fact that Usenet feeds were often spotty and difficult to get in the U.K., made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there. AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the U.S.; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see parallels with the growth of Usenet in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasize social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and competition (in writing, these social MUDs are sometimes referred to as `MU*', with `MUD' implicitly reserved for the more game-oriented ones). By 1991, over 50% of MUD sites were of a third major variety, LPMUD, which synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. In 1996 the cutting edge of the technology is Pavel Curtis's MOO, even more extensible using a built-in object-oriented language. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue. The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. Around 1991 there was an unsuccessful movement to deprecate the term MUD itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. It survived. See also bonk/oif, FOD, link-dead, mudhead, talk mode. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances in family circles. To see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend or employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops and unsatisfactory gains from stock. To see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed. To scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geological | Wet clay and silt-rich sediment. (references) |
Mining | A. A sticky or slippery mixture of water and silt- or clay-sized earth material, with a consistency ranging from semifluid to soft and plastic; a wet, soft soil or earthy mass; mire, sludge b. An unconsolidated sediment consisting of clay and/or silt, together with material of other dimensions (such as sand), mixed with water c. A suspension made by mixing the drill circulation fluid (water) with the fine cuttings produced by the bit when drilling a borehol. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MUD. A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also mud
MUD is an acronym for multi-user dungeon (or dimension, or even domain, as many would argue), a role-playing computer game that runs on a bulletin board system or Internet server. Many people may connect simultaneously. Once connected, players control a character. They see textual descriptions of rooms, objects, other characters, and computer-controlled creatures or NPCs (non-player characters) in a virtual world. Players may interact with each other and the surroundings by typing commands that resemble plain English.
Most MUDs implement a fantasy world populated by elves, goblins, and other mythical beings. Players pretend to be knights, sorcerers, and the like. The goal of the game is to slay monsters and complete quests. Some MUDs have a science fiction setting. Most MUDs are run as hobby and are free to players. Still others, especially thoses which are based on MOOs, are used in distance education or to allow for virtual conferences. MUDs have also attracted the interest of academic scholars from many fields, including communications, sociology, law, and economics.
The popularity of MUDs escalated in the USA during the 1980s, when (relatively speaking) cheap, at-home personal computers with 300 to 2400 baud modems enabled role players to log into multi-line BBSes. Roguelike games were also becoming popular at that time. In Europe at around the same time, MUD development was centered around academic networks, particularly at the University of Essex where it was played by many people, both internal and external to the University. The MUD scene is still very much alive on the Internet, and can be accessed via standard telnet clients. Specialized MUD clients exist that give a more pleasant user experience.
MUD variants
Once computer power increased and Internet connectivity became ubiquitous, the graphical MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) developed. Unlike earlier MUDs, most MMORPGs are commercial ventures. Examples of MMORPGs include:
The original MUDs drew their inspiration from paper-and-pencil based games such as Dungeons & Dragons (hence their name), and the computer game Original Adventure. The first MUD was created and written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle at Essex University in the UK [1]: a version of this first MUD is still running at www.mud2.com. The first popular MUD was AberMUD written by Alan Cox, also known as Anarchy, named after the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. Over time variants have diversified into other models while retaining the textual format. For example, some variants are called MUCKs, MUSHs, LPMUDs, and MOOs.
- Anarchy Online (2001)
- Asheron's Call (1999)
- EverQuest (1999)
- Ultima Online (1997)
A MUSH is often said to mean multi-player shared hallucination. MUSHes descend from the program TinyMUD. MUSHes date back to the early 1990s. They are more directly concerned with role-playing (acting) than MUDs, dispensing with the experience systems. Instead, players focus on creating their character's life as accurately as possible. Members of the MUSH family include PernMUSH, PennMUSH, TinyMUSH, TinyMUSE and TinyMUX.
A MUCK, which is an acronym of Multi-User Chat Kingdom, is similar to a MUSH in that the emphasis is on player interaction, rather than action and questing. MUCKs and MUSHes differ from IRC as a chat medium in that they provide a world, character descriptions etc in order to flesh out role-playing chat.
Other variants emphasize building by providing players with a powerful programming language (as in MOOs) to make their own objects and rooms, or function as elaborate chat systems with no fantasy trappings.
When referring to MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHes etc. all alike, the term MU* is often used.
Talkers and Spods
A lesser known variant is the talker, typically based on ew-too, summink, sensi-summink, playground, and plenty of other code bases. The talker is essentially a MUD, with most of the complex bits of code stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands -- hence the name talker. People who use these tend to be called spods. The spod tends to be something of a long term fanatic. Where many mudders may move on after a year or two, people who use talkers typically have been doing so for a decade or more. Talkers are signifigantly easier to run than an average MUD, since they don't incorporate very much artificial intelligence, and they are usually much more user friendly, since there is not often much fighting as a focus. In other words, whole families of husbands, wives, children, and siblings have been known to spod in certain circles. They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal for setting up quietly at work.
The spod has earned a place in the Jargon File.
Popular MU*s
- Realms of Chaos
- BatMUD
- LambdaMOO
- TinyTIM
- FurryMUCK
- SvenskMud
- Elendor (MUSH)
- Simutronics
- NannyMUD
Interesting MUDs
- Materia Magica
- Medievia
- QuestWar
External Links
- www.mudconnector.com: Extensive list of available MUDs
- [1] : List of the "top" MUDs.
- If you want to know more about MUSH coding and MUSHes, take a look at the MUSH Manual, created by Lydia Leong. This document is quite old and out of date in many ways, but it remains the best starting point for newcomers to MUSH.
- The SMAUG MUDserver is an advanced version in the Diku-Merc-ROM lineage.
- TinyMUX 2.1 is a variant of TinyMUSH 2.0 which incorporates many of the distinctive features of PennMUSH, TinyMUSE, and other MUSH variants.
- Similarly, TinyMUSH 3.0 is a variant of TinyMUX 1.6 which has been melded with TinyMUSH 2.4.
- Further reading for MUD development and server origination can be found at Kyndig
- Some history and reviews from Richard Bartle's "Interactive Multi-User Computer Games" report.
- There is more information about MUD culture and history in the Jargon File.
- For an academic look at MUDs, see Sherry Turkle's writings.
In the game of Contract bridge MUD is a defensive signalling convention that stands for Middle-Up-Down. A defender who plays his cards in this order is better able to communicate to his partner the number of cards he holds in the suit. The partner is thus able to infer the complete distribution of the suit.
Derivatives: Mudding, Mudder
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Wet soil or sediment is commonly referred to as mud. Geologically speaking, mud is a mixture of water and particles of silt and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to siltstone or mudrock (lutites}.See also: slurry, MUD
Mud is also the name of a British glam rock band of the 1970s, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet".
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MUD | English | Multi-User Dimension | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MudSynonyms: clay (n), mire (v), muck (v), muck up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Get into a scrape; Noun: bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn; (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail. |
Disrespect | Speak slightingly of; disparage; (dispraise); vilipend, vilify, call names; throw dirt, fling dirt; drag through the mud, point at, indulge in personalities; make mouths, make faces; bite the thumb; take by the beard; pluck by the beard; toss in a blanket, tar and feather. |
Failure | Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on. |
Marsh | Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei. |
Semiliquidity | Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh . |
Shortcoming | Break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out, come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays. |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
Mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh. | |
Unintelligibility | Obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible; (invisible); misty; (opaque); hidden; latent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mud |
| English words defined with "mud": Mud bath, Mud dauber, Mud drum, Mud lark, mud pie, mud puddle, Mud scow, mud stain, Mud wasp ♦ Volcanic mud. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mud": ada mud ♦ black mud, blue mud ♦ Clear as Crystal. Clear as Mud, colloidal mud ♦ LP MUD ♦ metalliferous mud, mud balance, mud belt, mud blasting, mud column, mud crack, MUD LARK, mud log, mud logging, MUD Object Oriented, mud pot, mud scow method, mud snapper, mud sump, mud wall cake ♦ red lime mud ♦ sucking mud ♦ water-base mud, WELL-LOGGING CAPTAIN, MUD ANALYSIS, WELL-LOGGING OPERATOR, MUD ANALYSIS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mud": Schlich. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mud" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (hectolitre), Spanish (mud), Welsh (dull, dumb, mute). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's only been a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Seaweed, mud, something on the lens (Jaws 2; writing credit: Carl Gottlieb; Howard Sackler) Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) We've spilled the same blood in the same mud. You know goddamn well I can't give that order (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Oh, I ate mud once (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) | |
Lyrics | Rolling in the mud (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) We done been through the mud and we quicker to slaughter (Party Up; performing artist: DMX) Slowly I become one with the mud (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay) I swear by the mud below my feet, (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; performing artist: Joan Baez) At an old saloon on a street of mud, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) | |
Clever | He who slings mud looses ground. (references; author: unknown) Two men looked out of prison bars: One saw mud, and the other saw stars. (references; author: unknown) If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy, but the mud will never get glovey. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mississippi Mud (1928) Models in Mud (1927) Beauty à la Mud (1926) Feet of Mud (1924) Stuck in the Mud (1922) | |
Song Titles | Tiger Feet (performing artist: Mud) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | X-15 Crash at Mud Lake, Nevada. Credit: NASA. |  | The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating. Credit: NASA. |
 | A little mud never hurt anyone SURVEYOR personnel at Kalgin Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | It's tough to run a 100-yard dash on Kalgin Island SURVEYOR personnel in the mud. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Footprints in the mud of a Patuxent River marsh, possibly muskrat. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The semi-aquatic Eastern Mud Turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum, is the mud turtle found in the Chesapeake Bay area. Found in wetlands and tidal marshes, is is easlily confused with the musk turtle. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Oily mud near marsh grass plugs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Dave Meyer in the marsh mud begins to prepare the site for a fyke net collection. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its dorsal surface has a single orange stripe and bright "electric blue lines, but otherwise is variable in color. Kodiak to Baja California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This polychaete, Amphitrite sp., builds and dwells in a tube constructed of mud. The worm's white tentacles, used to build its tube and gather food particles, and red gills can be seen in this photo. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Cracked mud" by Piers Warmers Commentary: "Creek bed during a drought. NSW, Australia." | "Mud" by Megan Brock Commentary: "Dont you just love the feel." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Austin O'malley | Sorrow, like rain, makes roses and mud. |
James Russell Lowell | No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. |
| They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. | |
Napoleon Bonaparte | I made all my generals out of mud. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. |
Suttapitaka | Extract yourself from bad ways like an elephant stuck in the mud. |
Virgil | Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Such people, when they are not mud, are dust |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | This mentality, Lepidus would say, is indeed bred out of your mud by the operation of your sun. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He hurried to the lower part of the bank and drove his shovel into the mud. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid sleeping in thatch, mud, or adobe houses. (references) | |
Use bed nets if sleeping in mud or thatch houses. (references) | ||
They may be free-living or associated with animal hosts and survive well in fresh water, soil, and mud in tropical areas. (references) | ||
Economic History | Algeria | Mountainous areas subject to severe earthquakes; mud slides. (references) |
Azerbaijan | A third mud pump will be installed to increase pump rates and drilling speeds. (references) | |
Ukraine | Crimea offers ideal climatic conditions, many curative mineral waters, peat and mud. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Most houses are made of mud bricks. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mud" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mud" is used about 1,919 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,919 | 4,457 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "mud". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bozez | N/A | Biblical | Mud |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "mud": as clear as mud ♦ clear as mud ♦ clinging mud ♦ cover with mud ♦ drabble in the mud ♦ drag through the mud ♦ drilling mud ♦ get covered with mud ♦ get splashed with mud ♦ get stuck in the mud ♦ here's mud in your eye! ♦ lime mud ♦ LP MUD ♦ mud bass ♦ mud bath ♦ mud boat ♦ mud bottom ♦ mud box ♦ Mud Butte ♦ mud cake ♦ mud cat ♦ mud cone ♦ mud crab ♦ mud crack ♦ mud dab ♦ mud dauber ♦ mud devil ♦ mud digger ♦ mud drum ♦ mud eel ♦ mud flap ♦ mud flat ♦ mud frog ♦ mud guard ♦ mud hen ♦ mud hut ♦ Mud Lake ♦ mud lark ♦ mud lining ♦ mud midget ♦ mud minnow ♦ mud Object Oriented ♦ mud pack ♦ mud pie ♦ mud plantain ♦ mud plug ♦ mud puddle ♦ mud puppy ♦ mud rain ♦ mud scow ♦ mud scow method ♦ mud shad ♦ mud sheath ♦ mud sill ♦ mud slinger ♦ mud spring ♦ mud stain ♦ mud terrapin ♦ Mud Therapy ♦ mud tortoise ♦ mud trap ♦ mud turtle ♦ mud volcano ♦ mud wasp ♦ primeval mud ♦ sea mud ♦ settle in the mud ♦ sling mud at ♦ soil with mud ♦ spatter with mud ♦ splash with mud ♦ stick in the mud ♦ sucking mud ♦ throw mud ♦ throw mud at smb. ♦ volcanic mud ♦ wade through mud ♦ watery mud. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mud": mud-baked, mud-bank, mud-bars, mud-based, mud-bath, mud-beplastered, mud-bespattered, mud-blooms, mud-bottomed, mud-brained, mud-brick, mud-bricked, mud-brown, mud-builders, mud-built, mud-caked, mud-channel, mud-coloured, mud-covered, mud-crab, mud-curdling, mud-cure, mud-dauber, mud-dwelling, mud-encrusted, mud-filled, mud-fish, mud-flat, mud-flats, mud-floored, mud-fringed, mud-frozen, mud-holes, mud-hoppers, mud-huts, mud-lane, mud-line, mud-lined, mud-living, mud-loving, mud-maker, mud-man, mud-mask, mud-packs, mud-patched, mud-pen, mud-plastered, mud-probing, mud-rich, mud-scathed, mud-screen, mud-slick, mud-slimy, mud-sling, mud-slinging, mud-smeared, mud-sodden, mud-spattered, mud-splashed, mud-splattered, mud-stained, mud-streaked, mud-supported, mud-tracks, mud-trodden, mud-walled, mud-wedge, mud-wrestling. | |
Ending with "mud": host-mud, lime-mud, mum-in-the-mud, pond-mud, shore-mud, stick-in-the-mud, stickin-the-mud, stuck-in-the-mud. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mud wrestling | 1,537 | mud hen | 101 |
mud | 1,491 | mud connector | 100 |
puddle of mud | 781 | atv mud tire | 99 |
g mud | 398 | mud bog | 93 |
the toledo mud hen | 348 | mud turtle | 92 |
mud flaps | 310 | mud o tug war | 83 |
mud tire | 296 | lyrics mud puddle | 81 |
mud truck | 240 | mud game | 79 |
mud run | 200 | mud tire for truck | 77 |
mud volleyball | 167 | mud bogging | 75 |
island mud | 149 | new earth mud | 74 |
mud bath | 149 | girl wrestling mud | 71 |
mud puppy | 146 | mississippi mud pie | 67 |
mud racing | 136 | download g mud | 65 |
camp pendleton mud run | 123 | cake mississippi mud | 63 |
female mud wrestling | 120 | mud wrestling pic | 60 |
mud client | 120 | mud wrestle | 55 |
mud pie | 113 | mud king tire | 54 |
woman mud wrestling | 103 | mud guard | 54 |
fight mud | 102 | nude mud wrestling | 52 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bemodderd (muddy, mud-stained). (various references) | |
Albanian | baltë (clay, dirt, foulness, mire, muck, muddiness, ooze, silt, slime, slob, soil). (various references) | |
Arabic | قمامة (garbage, muck, refuse, rubbish, soil, sweeping, sweepings, swill, trash), قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), وحل (bespatter, clay, dirt, mire, muddling, muddy, ooze, quaggy, silt, slime, slob), تشهير (aspersion, libel, mudslinging, scandal, slander), طين (clay, daub, earth, loam, lute, luting, mire, muck, ooze, point, silt, slime, sludge, slush). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | размътвам (addle, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, puddle, stir), тиня (mire, ooze, silt, slime, slob), шлам (pulp, sludge), кал (dirt, mire, muck, ooze, slime, slob, slop), нещо заслужаващо презрение, мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, obscenity, offscourings, ordure, squalor), мажа с кал, изцапвам с кал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 泥 (restrained). (various references) | |
Czech | zablátit (mire), bláto (dirt, mire, muck, ooze), bahno (morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, sludge, wash). (various references) | |
Danish | dynd (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Dutch | slik (dirt), slijk (slime), slib (dirt, slime), modder (dirt, slime), drek (dirt, dung, excrement, slime). (various references) | |
Esperanto | koto, ŝlimo (slime). (various references) | |
Faeroese | móra (dirt, slime), skittur (dirt, filth), runa (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Farsi | لجن (Lair, Mire, Silt, Slob, Slobber, Slop, Slosh, Slough, Sludge, Slush), گل الودکردن (Lair, Puddle), گل (Blossom, Clay, Flower, Lair, Silt, Slob, Slosh), تیره کردن (Blur, Dark, Dim, Fog, Gloom, Obscure, Overcast, Shade, Tarnish), افترا (Defamation, Libel, Obloquy). (various references) | |
Finnish | loka (dirt). (various references) | |
French | vase, boue (muck), bourbe. (various references) | |
Frisian | modder (dirt, ground, slime, soil), labze (dirt), dridze (dirt, slime), drek (dirt, slime), blabze (dirt, slime), blabber (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
German | Schlamm (dirt, mire, ooze, silt, silts, slime, sludge), Schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, ordure, smudginess, smut, sordidness, squalor), schlick (ooze, silt, slick), Kot (dirt, excrement, feces, filth, mire, muck, ordure), Dreck (dirt, filth, jam, mess, muck, muckiness, raunchiness, rubbish, scruffiness, smut). (various references) | |
Greek | ιλύς (ooze, sediment), λάσπη (alluvium, cement, clay, mire, mortar, ooze, puddle, silt, slab, slime, slosh, sludge). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | baltë (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בוץ (mire, swamp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sár (dirt, mess-up, mire, ooze, slob, slobber, sludge, splash). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lumpur (mire, ooze, slime, slosh, sludge, slush), gelimangan, bletok, belok (clayey soil, muddy, pulley, turn). (various references) | |
Italian | fango (dirt, mire, slime, slosh, sludge, slush), melma (mire, ooze). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 泥土 , 泥濘 (mire, quagmire, sludge, slush), 泥 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬかるみ (mire, quagmire, sludge, slush), どろ, でいねい (mire, quagmire, sludge, slush), でいど. (various references) | |
Korean | 머드. (various references) | |
Malay | lumpur (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Manx | laaghey (bemire, bespatter, of a mire), laaee. (various references) | |
Maya | luuk. (various references) | |
Mohawk | onawatsta. (various references) | |
Papago | bith (clay). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pòchòpòchò (dirt, slime), pèchèpèchè (dirt, slime), lodo (dirt, slime), lebelebe (dirt, slime), lèbèlèbè (dirt, slime), chèpèchèpè (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lodo (clay, dirt, ooze, slob, slush), lama (dirt, lama, mire, ooze, slob, slurry), vasa (slime, slob). (various references) | |
Romanian | mâl (ooze), noroi (clay, filth, mire, muck, ooze, sediment, slime, slush), nåmol (dirt, slime), nãmol (heap, muck, ooze, silt), im, glod. (various references) | |
Romansch | lozza. (various references) | |
Russian | грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, muddiness, ordure, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor, squelch). (various references) | |
Scottish | poll (a pool, mire, pool, puddle), eabar (puddle). (various references) | |
Sepedi | seretse. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mulj (ooze, silt, slime, sludge), kaljuga (bilge, mire, slab, soil), kal, blato (dirt, mire, quagmire, slop, slops, sludge). (various references) | |
Spanish | barro (clay, dirt, paste, slime), fango (mire, slush). (various references) | |
Sranan | tokotoko (dirt, slime). (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-dzaka. (various references) | |
Swedish | slam (dirt, ooze, silt, slam, slime, sludge), gyttja (dirt, mire, ooze, slime, Slough), dy (dirt, mire, ooze, slime, sludge, slush). (various references) | |
Thai | โคลน (slop, slosh, sludge, slush), การใส่ร้าย, ปกคลุมไปด้วยโคลน. (various references) | |
Turkish | çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, slime, slob, slosh, slush, soggy, squelch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | palзyk (clay), lьяk (slush), kir, hapa (dirt, dirty, trash), зyrюak (dirt), зor (dirt), batga (slime, swamp). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | твань (clay, ooze), грязь (ordure, plonk, slob, slobber, smudge, soil), оббризкувати гряззю, наклеп (calumniation, calumny, defamation, denigration, libel, malediction, mudslinging, slander, slur, smear), мул (clay, mule, ooze, silt, slime). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lạc hậu (old-fashioned, rusty, unprogressive), chậm tiến. (various references) | |
Welsh | mwd, llaid (mire). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. imi, sahar. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caeni, caeno, cænum, cena, cenis, limo, limum, limus, lutati, luti, luto, lutum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | adela. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rouil. (various references) |
| Irish | 1000-Modern | slab. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mud": mudcap, mudcapped, mudcapping, mudcaps, mudcat, mudcats, mudded, mudder, mudders, muddied, muddier, muddies, muddiest, muddily, muddiness, muddinesses, mudding, muddle, muddled, muddleheaded, muddleheadedly, muddleheadedness, muddleheadednesses, muddler, muddlers, muddles, muddling, muddly, muddy, muddying, mudfish, mudfishes, mudflap, mudflaps, mudflat, mudflats, mudflow, mudflows, mudguard, mudguards, mudhole, mudholes, mudlark, mudlarks, mudpack, mudpacks, mudpuppies, mudpuppy, mudra, mudras, mudrock. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mud": almud. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mud": almude, almudes, almuds, bemuddle, bemuddled, bemuddles, bemuddling, bermudas, besmudge, besmudged, besmudges, besmudging, curmudgeon, curmudgeonliness, curmudgeonlinesses, curmudgeonly, curmudgeons, remuda, remudas, smudge, smudged, smudges, smudgier, smudgiest, smudgily, smudginess, smudginesses, smudging, smudgy, talmudic, talmudism, talmudisms. (additional references) | |
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"Mud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amud, eud, gmwu, Magd, mahd, mbd, mcd, mcu, mdb, mdd, mdm, mdt, mdu, Medbh, medd, mewd, Midh, miud, mld, Mlud, Mmuh, mnd, modu, Mohd, moud, Mpu, mrd, mru, msd, mu, mub, muc, Muda, mudd, mudda, mude, Mudi, mudo, mudr, muds, mudy, mued, muf, muh, muid, muj, muk, muld, Mund, mup, muq, mur, murd, muu, muuu, muv, muw, mux, muy, muz, mvd, mxd, Mxu, myd, nud, qud, umbudi, Umc, Umd, umdo, Umh, umid, Uml, umt, Xmu, zudd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mud" (pronounced mu"d) |
| 2 | -u" d | blood, bud, crud, dud, flood, Rudd, Scud, spud, stud, Sudd, thud. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-u" | |
-1 letter: mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-u" | |
+1 letter: doum, drum, duma, dumb, dump, maud, muds. | |
+2 letters: almud, datum, degum, demur, douma, doums, drums, dumas, dumbs, dumka, dumky, dummy, dumps, dumpy, dunam, duomi, duomo, durum, fumed, humid, mauds, maund, modus, mould, mound, mucid, muddy, mudra, muled, mured, murid, mused, muted, odeum, odium, sedum, tumid, umped. | |
+3 letters: adytum, almude, almuds, amadou, amused, bedumb, blumed, bummed, bumped, culmed, cundum, datums, degums, demure, demurs, dictum, dimout, dinkum, dirdum, dorsum, doumas, drumly, dumbed, dumber, dumbly, dumdum, dumped, dumper, dunams, duomos, durums, flumed, gaumed, gummed, hummed, humped, imbued, indium, jumped, lumped, maduro, maraud, mauled, maunds, maundy, medium, medius, medusa, meoued, midgut, module, moduli, modulo, moulds, mouldy, mounds, moused, mucked, mucoid, mudcap, mudcat, mudded, mudder, muddle, muddly, mudras, muffed, mugged, mulled, mummed, mumped, murder, murids, muscid, mushed, musjid, mussed, musted, nudism, numbed, odeums, odiums, oidium, osmund, plumed, podium, pumped, radium, remuda, sedums, smudge, smudgy, sodium, spumed, summed, tedium, tumped, unmade, unmold. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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