noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ deep
▪ thick
▪ soft , sticky , wet
▪ dried , dry
▪
footprints left in the hard dried ~
▪ black , brown , red
VERB + MUD
▪ be caked in , be caked with , be covered with
▪
Her boots were caked in ~.
▪ get/become bogged down in ( esp. BrE ), get stuck in
▪
Several cars got bogged down in the ~.
▪ turn (sth) into , turn (sth) to
▪
The cars had turned the road into ~.
▪ wallow in
▪
pigs wallowing in the ~
▪ spatter (sb/sth with)
MUD + VERB
▪ ooze
▪
Wet ~ oozed up between their toes.
▪ crack
▪
The ~ in the dried-up river bed had cracked.
MUD + NOUN
▪ brick , floor , house , hut , wall
▪ flats
▪ puddle
▪ hole , pit
▪ slide
▪
Flash floods and ~ slides struck three coastal towns.
▪ fight , wrestling
▪ bath
▪ pie
▪
The kids were in the yard making ~ pies.
PREPOSITION
▪ in the ~
▪
She fell in the ~.
▪ through the ~
▪
We squelched through the ~.
PHRASES
▪ a layer of ~ , a sea of ~