noun / verb
mud
MUD/mʌd/
Soft wet earth.
Deep boot impressions mark the soft mud beside the abandoned boot.
Etymology
The probable Middle Low German source meant 'thick mud': the English word retains the same concrete sense of earth softened into a sticky mass by water.
In context
At last, we move out of the ruts and soft mud onto the battered, stony surface of a road that slopes easily upward. A dead pioneer mule lies athwart our track.
More examples
- Rain turns the bare soil into mud.
- Please wipe the mud off your boots.
- The children shape mud into pretend pies.
Forms
mud · muds · mudded · mudding
muddy adjective — Covered with or full of mud.