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Muddy

Definition: Muddy

Muddy

Adjective

1. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous".

2. Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable".

3. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair".

4. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters".

Verb

1. Dirty with mud.

2. Cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction".

3. Make turbid; "muddy the water".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "muddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Muddy, Illinois

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Muddy is a village located in Saline County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 78.

Geography


Muddy is located at 37°45'51" North, 88°30'52" West (37.764086, -88.514469)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 78 people, 34 households, and 21 families residing in the village. The population density is 115.8/km² (296.9/mi²). There are 39 housing units at an average density of 57.9/km² (148.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 88.46% White, 5.13% African American, 2.56% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 3.85% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 3.85% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 34 households out of which 38.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.1% are married couples living together, 8.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% are non-families. 38.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.29 and the average family size is 2.95. In the village the population is spread out with 24.4% under the age of 18, 17.9% from 18 to 24, 17.9% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 110.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.3 males. The median income for a household in the village is $24,375, and the median income for a family is $28,750. Males have a median income of $28,750 versus $28,250 for females. The per capita income for the village is $13,384. 7.7% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Muddy, Illinois."

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Muddy, Montana

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Muddy is a town located in Big Horn County, Montana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 627.

Geography


Muddy is located at 45°35'57" North, 106°44'22" West (45.599225, -106.739578)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 74.0 km² (28.6 mi²). 74.0 km² (28.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 627 people, 149 households, and 129 families residing in the town. The population density is 8.5/km² (22.0/mi²). There are 160 housing units at an average density of 2.2/km² (5.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 5.42% White, 0.00% African American, 94.26% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.32% from two or more races. 3.03% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 149 households out of which 63.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.6% are married couples living together, 31.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 13.4% are non-families. 8.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 0.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 4.21 and the average family size is 4.34. In the town the population is spread out with 46.4% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 14.8% from 45 to 64, and 1.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 20 years. For every 100 females there are 100.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 85.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $24,688, and the median income for a family is $23,529. Males have a median income of $26,806 versus $11,458 for females. The per capita income for the town is $4,837. 59.9% of the population and 45.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 69.5% are under the age of 18 and 100.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Muddy, Montana."

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Synonyms: Muddy

Synonyms: boggy (adj), cloudy (adj), dingy (adj), dirty (adj), marshy (adj), mirky (adj), miry (adj), mucky (adj), muddied (adj), murky (adj), quaggy (adj), sloughy (adj), swampy (adj), turbid (adj), muddy up (v). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: muddiest (geography), slimier (geography), slimiest (geography).

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Synonyms within Context: Muddy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imbecility Folly

Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed.

Marsh

Adjective: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny.

Moisture

Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous.

Semiliquidity

Adjective: semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy. Noun: lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous.

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.

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Crosswords: Muddy

English words defined with "muddy": American frogbit, amphiumabillow, blind eelClarty, comatulid, congo eel, congo snakedisorganised, disorganized, Dreggy, Droumy, Drovy, Drumly, duckboardfeather starLimnodium spongia, Limous, Lutulentmud flat, mud turtle, mudder, Muddily, Muddying, Mudwortpool, puddle, PuddlySossUliginous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "muddy": Bath, BridgeCanal, CanoeDivingFerry, Fish-pond, Floating, Floods, Flying, Foot-logHASTY PUDDING, hollow-plunger pumpLakeMill-dam, mud-fishNakedPond, Puddlerain print, raindrop impression, raindrop imprint, RiverTroutWading, Wagon, Water. (references)
Etymologies containing "muddy": Hylodes. (references)

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Modern Usage: Muddy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Bill! I'm fixin' for another homoerotic adventure on the big muddy! (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

Lyrics

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Down by the muddy water (Nowhere To Go; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

Clever

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

Fair and Muddy (1928)

A Muddy Bride (1921)

The Kennedy Center Presents: A Tribute to Muddy Waters: King of the Blues (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Muddy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig (Ready-To-Read. Level 2) (reference)

  • Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters (reference)

  • Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from (reference)

  • Max the Muddy Puppy (Puppy Friends, No 5) (reference)

  • Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working: Rare Performances 1968-1978 (reference)

  • Muddy Waters Can't Be Satisfied (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Muddy

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Photo Album: Muddy

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Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh. Credit: NASA.

Station Emery near Muddy River Triangulation party of Frank G. Johnson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

'O' party following a creek bed in preference to a muddy road Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Muddy shoreline next to an abandoned shack. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The ebb tide carrying clear and muddy waters into the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Oyster shells are recycled by planting them on soft muddy bottom. This gives a firm surface for the attachment of young oysters and helps provide larger crops. Credit: Fisheries.

Muddy site and the retaining fence. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, Cancer Magister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivory depressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms in subtidal regions and in eelgrass beds ranging from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, thrives in the muddy sands of estuaries. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Core sample collection in the muddy sands of Long Island Sound. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Muddy
 

"Muddy Slippers" by Glass Shard
Commentary: "My muddy beach slippers after a stroll on the beach."
"Muddy bike" by MICHAEL HOMBURG CLAN.DREI
Commentary: "It was a rainy day."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Muddy

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Love Peacock

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

William Congreve

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Muddy

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Below this chemise were a pair of muddy pantaloons and boots from which the toes stuck out.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The three figures standing at the edge of the muddy path had pinched cheeks and watery eyes

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

In the little sties the pigs grunted inquiringly over the muddy remnants of the slops

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Muddy

"Muddy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Muddy" is used about 632 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%63210,281

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Muddy

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "muddy".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AbezN/ABiblical

Muddy

AsiaN/ABiblical

Muddy

ThebezN/ABiblical

Muddy

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Cities: Muddy


1. Muddy, IL (village, FIPS 51271)
Location: 37.76497 N, 88.51676 W
Population (1990): 87 (47 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA


2. Muddy, MT (CDP, FIPS 52315)
Location: 45.59004 N, 106.79474 W
Population (1990): 387 (124 housing units)
Area: 73.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expression: Muddy

Expressions using "muddy": get muddy make muddy muddy pool muddy up. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "muddy": muddy-boots, muddy-bottomed, muddy-brown, muddy-coloured, Muddy-headed, muddy-looking, Muddy-mettled, muddy-water.

Ending with "muddy": non-muddy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muddy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

muddy water

368

buddy chex muddy

9

muddy

300

big muddy river

9

muddy girl

89

muddy park run

8

muddy buddy

68

campground muddy run

8

muddy water lyrics

42

muddy river

8

muddy boot

25

muddy pond

7

muddy park recreation run

22

cedar muddy rapid water

7

kid muddy

20

heel muddy

7

fun muddy

18

muddy water guitar tab

7

muddy truck

15

muddy water picture

7

muddy run

13

foot muddy

6

muddy river smokehouse

13

muddy mudskipper

6

buddy muddy recipe

13

muddy teen

6

fox muddy

12

muddy sock

6

muddy woman

12

discography muddy water

6

muddy water tab

10

creek muddy raceway

6

big muddy

10

muddy paw

6

jean muddy

10

buddy muddy race

6

creek muddy

9

jeep muddy

5

boy muddy

9

clothes muddy

5

from the muddy bank of the wishkah

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Muddy

Language Translations for "muddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bemodderd (mud-stained). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

me baltë (miry, mucky, slushy), turbulloj (abash, addle, alarm, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disquiet, embarrass, fog, obfuscate, obscure, perturb, rile, roil, trouble, unhinge, unsettle), nxjerr cirka balte, ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i përbaltur (draggle-tailed, mucky), i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, tangly, tricky, woozy), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i fëlliqur (contaminated, dirt, dirty, disgraceful, filthy, grimy, lewd, lousy, mean, mourning, sludgy, squalid), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild), baltak (miry, slimy, sloughy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

عَكِر (troubled), ‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, offend, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏موحل (clayey, foul, mucky, murky, puddly, slimy, sloughy, slushy, squashy), ‏معكر (quaggy, turbid), ‏مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, promiscuous, unsettled), ‏لوث بالوحل (bemire, muddle), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏وحل (bespatter, clay, dirt, mire, mud, muddling, ooze, quaggy, silt, slime, slob), ‏عكر (derange, disturb, muddle, roil, trouble, turbid, turbidity), ‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏طيني (argillaceous, clayey, oozy, slimy, sludgy, squashy), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle), ‏داكن اللون (somber, sombre, swarthy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

размътвам (addle, mud, muddle, obfuscate, puddle, stir), кален (feculent, miry, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, sticky, tempered, thick), оцапвам (dirty, slubber, smear, soil, splotch, stain), окалвам (make dirty, soil), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), оплескан (dirty, messy, mucky), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), наплесквам (bedaub, paddle), мътен (cloudy, dim, dreggy, feculent, fishy, roily, sludgy, thick, turbid, unclear), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), матов (dead, dim, dull, lustreless, mat, opaque), замъглявам (bedim, befog, blur, dim, dull, film, fog, skim), без блясък (lustreless). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

泥泞 (sloppiness), (turbid), , (impure), . (various references)

   

Czech

  

zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, confused, disordered, embroiled, in confusion, mazy, mixed, screwed up, turbid), zablácený (miry), blátivý (miry, soft, splashy). (various references)

   

Danish

  

mudret (miry, silty, slimy, sludgy), slamagtig (miry, silty, slimy, sludgy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

modderig (miry, silty, slimy, sludgy). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kotkovrita (mud-stained). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرازگل , گلی کردن (Rosy), گلی (Draggy, Earthen, Roseate), گل الود (Shod, Thick, Turbid), تیره (Black, Caliginous, Dark, Gloomy, Heavy, Ilk, Indistinct, Lurid, Murky, Nebulous, Obscure, Overcast, Thick, Turbid). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mutainen (miry, silty, slimy, sludgy), liejuinen (miry). (various references)

   

French

  

vaseux, bourbeux. (various references)

   

German

  

schlammig (miry, muddily, oozy, slimily, slimy, sludgy), trübe (bleak, blear, blearly, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dark, dim, dimly, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, filmy, gloomy, grey, grim, indistinct, lackluster, lacklustre, misty, murky, somberly, turbid). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λασπώδης (miry, silty, slimy, sludgy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעוכר (befouled, troubled), מבוצץ (boggy, mired), מרופש (fouled, miry, slushy, splashy, turbid), עכור (bemired, foul, gloomy, slushy, turbid), דלוח (befouling, dirty, filthy, foul, polluted, pollution, turbid), בוצי, נרפש (befouled, miry, slushy, turbid). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

iszapos (dirty, oozy, silty, slimy, slobby, sloppy, sludgy, turbid). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengeruhkan (make something muddy), gelepot, gelepok, bencah, belok (clayey soil, mud, pulley, turn). (various references)

   

Italian

  

torbido (cloudy, dark, indeterminate, opaque, sketchy, turbid), fangoso (dirty, foul, foully, grimy, miry, slimy, sludgy, smutty). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

泥状 , 泥塗れ (mud-caked), 混濁した (cloudy, thick, turbid). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どろまみれ (mud-caked), でいじょう, こんだくした (cloudy, thick, turbid). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

진흙 (Muddier, Muddiest). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sollaghey (assault, assault sexually, begrime, besmear, besmirch, contaminate, contamination, defile, defilement, dirty, grime, muck, pollute, pollution, soil, soiling, stain, sully), seiyt (agitated, churned, mixed, stirred, troubled, troubled of water), neughlen (foul, impure, lewd, unclean, vulgar), laaghagh (ducklike, sludgy, slushy). (various references)

   

Maya

  

dzodzopkil. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uddymay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

enlameado (miry, sludgy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, mess, muck, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), tulbure (cloudy, dim, feculent, filmy, thick, troubled, turbid, unquiet, unsettled, vaguely), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), stropit cu noroi, smead, rãguşit (gruff, hoarse, husky, raucous, rusty, thick, woolly), plin de noroi (dirty, miry, splashy), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, obscurely, vague, vaguely), gloduros (bumpy), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), brunet (dark-haired, swarthy), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), întuneca (bedim, cloud, darken, dim, gloom, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud, overshadow, sadden, tarnish), împroşcat cu noroi. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mutan (bleary, dim, dingy, feculent, lacklustre, mat, matted, roily, thick, troubled, turbid), zamućen (cloudy), kaljav (miry, soil), blatnjav (miry, puddly, sludgy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fangoso (boggy, Fenny, miry, splashy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

virrig (confused, desultory, dizzy, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, indiscriminate, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), gyttjig (oozy, slimy), grumlig (confused, feculent, muddled, obscure, roily, turbid), dyig (miry, oozy, slimy). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เลอะโคลน, ทำให้เปื้อนโคลน, ยุ่งเหยิง (foul, higgledy-piggledy, jumble, ravel, ruffled, sloppy, tangle), ข่น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bulandırmak (blur, cloud, darken, dim, trouble, turn, upset), bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), anlaşılması zor (abstruse, complicated, hermetic, recondite), çamurlu (miry, plashy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, turbid, uliginose), çamurlamak (bedrabble, bedraggle, bemire, bespatter, mire, puddle, puddle about, slime, soil with mud). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kirli (dirty, filthy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

каламутний (cloudy, dreggy, puddly, roily), мутити, мулистий (oozy, slimy, sludgy), забризкати гряззю, брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), плутаний (addle, disconnected, discursive, entangled, pell mell, pellmell, puzzle-headed, wrongheaded), димчастий (smoked). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mập mờ (dim, ill-defined, indefinite, indeterminate, misty, unprecise, woolly), xám xịt; đục, xám, lầy bùn, lấy lội vấy bùn, lấm bùn xỉn, hỗn độn không rõ, đầy bùn (sludgy), đục ngầu lộn xộn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Muddy

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

turbidam, turbido, turbidus. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

clam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Muddy

Derivations

Words beginning with "muddy": muddying. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Muddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fuddi, fuddy, Huddy, Madadh, maddy, Mcddi, mdd, meddy, Meddyg, medy, moddy, Mody, mudd, mudda, mudde, Muddie, Muddin, Mudi, mudo, mudr, mudy, Murdy, nudy, Udy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Muddy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "muddy" (pronounced mu"dē)
3-u" d ēbloody, buddy, cruddy, cuddy, Duddy, ruddy, study.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Muddy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-m-u-y"

-2 letters: dud, mud, yum.

-3 letters: mu, my, um.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-m-u-y"
 

+1 letter: muddly.

 

+2 letters: muddily.

 

+3 letters: didymium, didymous, muddying.

 

+4 letters: didymiums.

 

+5 letters: dehumidify, undismayed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Derived from
13. Cities
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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