mud

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mud"

Translingual

Symbol

mud

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mednyj Aleut.

See also

English

Churned-up mud (sense 1)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mŭd, IPA(key): /mʌd/
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /mʊd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌd
  • Homophone: MUD

Etymology 1

From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), Danish mudder (“mud”). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), Erzya мода (moda, “earth, ground”) from Proto-Uralic *muďa (“earth”)).[1]

Noun

mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)

  1. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
  2. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
  3. (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
  4. (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
    The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.
  5. (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
  6. (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
  7. (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  8. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
    • 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown:
      That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.
    • 2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:
      How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]
  9. Drilling fluid.
  10. (slang, originally US) Coffee.
  11. (slang) Opium.
  12. (slang) Heroin.
  13. (US slang) Lean.
  14. real property in English Land Law
Derived terms
Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

Verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

  1. (transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
  2. (transitive) To make turbid.
  3. (intransitive) To go under the mud, as an eel does.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.

Noun

mud (plural muds or mudden)

  1. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
  2. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
  3. (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
Synonyms

Etymology 3

    From MUD.

    Noun

    mud (plural muds)

    2. Alternative letter-case form of MUD (“multi-user dungeon”).
      • 1992 November 1, Christina Marie O'Sullivan, “Mud Research”, in alt.mud‎[1] (Usenet):
        My learning-circle work group is researching the topic of muds, and we would like to hear from the following people: […]
      • 1993 June 19, Larry Mulcahy, quoting Bibo, “Alt.suicide.holiday MUD”, in alt.tasteless‎[2] (Usenet):
        Because of the paranoia on ash, I have created a mud for the group. […] The reason that this message is posted trought[sic] anon.penet.fi, is that the mud is not very legal, there will, however, be no difficulties unless someone does something really stupid to alert the admins.
      • 1995 September 24, Steve Hyatt, “Looking for Imp/Wiz position”, in rec.games.mud.misc‎[3] (Usenet):
        Experience - I have started a couple of successful muds, including Arctic Diku.
      • 1997 September 15, Arnd Empting, “playing muds in xemacs?”, in comp.emacs.xemacs‎[4] (Usenet):
        Is there a way (and if possible perhaps an example) how to use Xemacs for playing muds?
    Derived terms

    Verb

    mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

    2. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
      Alternative form: MUD
      • 1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153:
        Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently […]

    References

    1. ^ Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.

    Further reading

    Anagrams

    Breton

    Adjective

    mud

    1. mute

    Dutch

    Alternative forms

    • mudde

    Etymology

    From Middle Dutch mudde, from Latin modius (“bushel”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mʏt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: mud
    • Rhymes: -ʏt

    Noun

    mud n (plural mudden, diminutive mudje n or muddeken n)

    1. an old measure of volume, varying in content over time and regions; nowadays usually 1 hectoliter
      Een mud is zo'n 70 kilo aardappelen
      One mud is about 70 kg of potatoes
    2. a wooden container having such content; again used as measure for bulk wares sold in it, such as cereals
    3. a land measure, presumably supposedly the area sown with that much seed
    4. a small measure for liquids, about 1 deciliter

    Derived terms

    • mudderecht n
    • mudszak m
    • korenmud n

    Descendants

    • Afrikaans: mud

    Ghadames

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Berber
    Tuareg muhəd
    Tuareg mudbor.
    Ghadames mud

      Borrowed from Tuareg mud, variant of muhəd (“to pray”), from a Proto-Berber verb meaning to do.

      Verb

      mud (verbal noun atəmud)

      1. to pray

      Derived terms

      • ălmudu (“mosque”)

      References

      • Jacques Lanfry (1973), Ghadamès: Etude linguistique et ethnographique. II, Glossaire (parler des Ayt Waziten), France: le Fichier périodique, page 193

      Indonesian

      Etymology

      Ultimately from Arabic مُدّ (mudd, “a certain dry measure”)

      Noun

      mud (plural mud-mud)

      1. (Islam) a dry measure (for dates, water, grains, and other things) varying in size, roughly around 510 grams
        Satu sha' setara dengan empat mud ― One ṣāʿ is equivalent to 4 mudd

      Further reading

      Sumerian

      Romanization

      mud

      1. romanization of 𒄷𒄭 (mud)

      Volapük

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [mud]

      Noun

      mud

      1. mouth

      Declension

      Declension of mud
      Singular Plural
      Nominative mud muds
      Genitive muda mudas
      Dative mude mudes
      Accusative mudi mudis
      Predicative1 mudu mudus
      Vocative o mud o muds
      1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

      Derived terms

      • mudot (“mouthpiece”)

      Further reading

      • “mud”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

      Welsh

      Etymology

      From Middle Welsh mut, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉd, from Latin mūtus.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      mud (feminine singular mud, plural mudion, not comparable)

      1. mute, dumb, silent (unable or unwilling to speak)

      Derived terms

      Mutation

      Mutated forms of mud
      radical soft nasal aspirate
      mud fud unchanged unchanged

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      Further reading

      • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “mud”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
      This page is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.