I. ˈməd noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English mode, mudde, probably from Middle Low German, thick mud; akin to Middle High German mot mud, morass, Swedish modd dirty snow, Old English mōs bog, swamp — more at moss
1. : a slimy sticky fluid-to-plastic mixture of finely divided particles of solid material and water
a drizzling rain … turned the dust of the roads into mud — George Borrow
2.
a. : the worst part of a thing : dregs
the mud of the earth … remains bespattering his spirit — Havelock Ellis
b. : the lowest place : depths
that you should have been dragged down into the mud — Christopher Isherwood
3. : abusive and malicious remarks or charges
a sorely bedeviled body of men who have had much mud thrown at and around them — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude
4. : a geological deposit having the physical character of mud
sands and muds … have been transformed by the stresses of millions of years into white marble — American Guide Series: Maryland
5. : drilling fluid
6. : anathema II 2b — used especially in the phrase name is mud
don't know what his right name is … but his name's mud with me — S.V.Benét
7. slang : opium
II. verb
( mudded ; mudded ; mudding ; muds )
transitive verb
1. : to make muddy or turbid
the dog scampered through the brook, mudding it
2. : to spread or plaster with mud
these tanks were mudded up for camouflage — Infantry Journal
choose deliberately the path well- mudded — Roland Mathias
mud the chinks in his cabin
3. : to introduce mud into ; especially : to introduce artificial muds containing a heavy constituent (as barite) into (an oil well) to seal against natural gas or water during drilling — often used with off
intransitive verb
: to burrow or hide in mud
a place where the eels mud
III.
variant of muid