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[ adjective ] (of soil) soft and watery
Examples "the ground was boggy under foot" "a marshy coastline" "miry roads" "wet mucky lowland" "muddy barnyard" "quaggy terrain" "the sloughy edge of the pond" "swampy bayous" Used in print (Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go_on forever . (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)There was no real sign of the river now , just a roiling , oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere . The waters lay muddy but placid , without a ripple of movement against the wheels ; there was not a match width of damp mark to show they were receding . (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)Or you could wish your daddy would really do it - kill Gratt_Shafer like he said when you all_the_time , all_along , could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Synonyms Examples "muddy boots" "a mucky stable" Used in print (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)Then they had always been romping around him on these walks , yelping with delight , dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting_expeditions , returning to jump up on him triumphantly with muddy paws . Related terms |
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[ verb ] cause to become muddy
Examples "These data would have muddied the prediction" Related terms |
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