How do you use the word "muddy" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "muddy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "muddy": Your shoes need brushing. They are muddy. My feet started sticking in the muddy street. I nearly fell down.

Muddy Meaning

/ˈmʌdi/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjCovered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

adjOf water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

Sentence Examples

Your shoes need brushing. They are muddy.

My feet started sticking in the muddy street. I nearly fell down.

The muddy road has ruined my new shoes.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

wet dirty unclean

Antonyms:

dry clean

CEFR Practice Quiz

After the heavy rain, the dirt road became so ____ that my boots got covered in wet mud.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please take off your ____ boots before you walk into the clean living room, or you will leave dirty footprints all over the new white carpet.

Word Origin & History

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English muddi, moddy, muddy (“covered with or full of mud, muddy”), from mud, mudde (“mud; turbid water”) + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Mud, mudde is possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch modde, and/or Middle Low German modde, mudde, from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). The English word is analysable as mud + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Doublet of muddle. The verb is derived from the adjective. cognates * Middle Low German moddich, muddich (German Low German muddig (“muddy; mouldy”))

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"It [the cistern] muſt be firmely and cloſely paued vvith clay and mortar, and after dravvne ouer and floored vvith the ſame mortar, to the ende that the vvater be not made muddy or taſt of the earth: […]" — 1606, Charles Steuens [i.e., Charles Estienne]; John Liebault [i.e., Jean Liébault], “The Seating and Situating of the Countrie Farme, with Other His Appurtinances”, in Richard Surflet, transl., Maison Rustique, or The Countrey Farme: […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, →OCLC, book I, page 7:

"[T]he augure, […] is a ſharpe inſtrument of yron made thinne vvith many ſharpe teeth, and ſo ſtriken into holes or muddie banks, vvhere they vvill many times catch a verie great aboundance of Eeles: […]" — 1616, Charles Steuens [i.e., Charles Estienne]; John Liebault [i.e., Jean Liébault]; Gervase Markham, “Of the Sorts of Fishes wherewith Pooles, Ponds, and Ditches, are to be Furnished”, in Richard Surflet, transl., Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme. […], new edition, London: […] Adam Jslip for John Bill, →OCLC, book IV (That There are Two Sorts of Medowes), page 508:

"All theſe Cocytus bounds vvith ſqualid Reeds, / VVith Muddy Ditches, and vvith deadly VVeeds: […]" — 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 143, lines 686–687:

"A long Canal the muddy Fenn divides, / And vvith a clear unſully'd Current glides; […]" — 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “From Rome to Naples”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 188:

"I came out of the army like dragging myself muddy out of a swamp. I wandered for a long time before going home to a remembered place I did not love." — 1952 September 19, John Steinbeck, chapter 15, in East of Eden, Chicago, Ill.: Sears Readers Club, published 2002, →ISBN, section 3, page 170:

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