mud | WordDisk

4.1

History

Add

mud `noun` [ mʌd ]

• soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water.

• "ankle deep in mud, we squelched across a meadow"

Similar: mire, sludge, slush, ooze, silt, clay, gumbo, dirt, soil, clag, clart, slob,

• information or allegations regarded as damaging or scandalous.

• "the two sides took over the local media to throw mud at each other"

Origin: late Middle English: probably from Middle Low German mudde .

MUD `noun`

• a computer-based text or virtual reality game which several players play at the same time, interacting with each other as well as with characters controlled by the computer.

Origin: 1980s: from multi-user dungeon or multi-user dimension .

drag someone or something through the mud

• slander or criticize someone or something publicly.
"our names have been dragged through the mud"

here's mud in your eye!

• expressing good wishes before drinking.

mud sticks

• disparaging or malicious allegations are difficult to disprove or shake off.
"it would be easy to dismiss the story as a clumsy smear attempt, but mud sticks"

someone's name is mud

• someone is in disgrace or unpopular.
"if anything goes wrong, my name will be mud"

up to mud

• not satisfactory; not good enough.
"our present system is up to mud"

mud noun [ mʌd ]