Mud Meaning
/mʌd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
nounAcronym of multi-user dungeon, an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.
Sentence Examples
Please remove the mud from your shoes.
The ladder was covered with mud.
The car wheels got stuck in the mud.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After the rain, the path turned into soft ____ that stuck to our boots.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children were covered in thick brown ____ from head to toe after spending the entire afternoon playing in the garden after the heavy rainstorm.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Spanish MUDbor. English MUD Borrowed from Spanish MUD (“Mesa de la Unidad Democrática”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The local branch of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) announced its intention to disrupt the MUD rally at a press conference the day before; municipal vehicles were laid on to take the chavistas out there."
— 2012 September 29, “Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2020:
"That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers."
— 2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown:
"How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]"
— 2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:
"Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart."
— 1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:
"Brown Stuff, or Mud . . . Opium"
— [1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Glossary, page 153:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the rain, the path turned into soft ____ that stuck to our boots.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children were covered in thick brown ____ from head to toe after spending the entire afternoon playing in the garden after the heavy rainstorm.