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Definition: Muddy |
MuddyAdjective1. (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". Verb1. 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) |
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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 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."
Synonyms: MuddySynonyms: 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). |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Muddy |
| English words defined with "muddy": American frogbit, amphiuma ♦ billow, blind eel ♦ Clarty, comatulid, congo eel, congo snake ♦ disorganised, disorganized, Dreggy, Droumy, Drovy, Drumly, duckboard ♦ feather star ♦ Limnodium spongia, Limous, Lutulent ♦ mud flat, mud turtle, mudder, Muddily, Muddying, Mudwort ♦ pool, puddle, Puddly ♦ Soss ♦ Uliginous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "muddy": Bath, Bridge ♦ Canal, Canoe ♦ Diving ♦ Ferry, Fish-pond, Floating, Floods, Flying, Foot-log ♦ HASTY PUDDING, hollow-plunger pump ♦ Lake ♦ Mill-dam, mud-fish ♦ Naked ♦ Pond, Puddle ♦ rain print, raindrop impression, raindrop imprint, River ♦ Trout ♦ Wading, Wagon, Water. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "muddy": Hylodes. (references) |
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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) | |
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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). |
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| "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." |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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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 |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 632 | 10,281 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "muddy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abez | N/A | Biblical | Muddy |
| Asia | N/A | Biblical | Muddy |
| Thebez | N/A | Biblical | Muddy |
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1. Muddy, IL (village, FIPS 51271) 2. Muddy, MT (CDP, FIPS 52315) |
Expressions using "muddy": get muddy ♦ make muddy ♦ muddy pool ♦ muddy up. Additional references. | |
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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. | |
| 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 |
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 | ||
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| 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), 淟 (turbid), 濘 , 濁 (impure), 渾 . (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | turbidam, turbido, turbidus. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | clam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "muddy": muddying. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "muddy" (pronounced mu"dē) |
| 3 | -u" d ē | bloody, buddy, cruddy, cuddy, Duddy, ruddy, study. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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