mud : Idioms & Phrases

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drag through the mud

  • verb speak unfavorably about
    malign; traduce; badmouth.
    • She badmouths her husband everywhere
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drilling mud

  • noun a mixture of clays and chemicals and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole
    drilling fluid.
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Mud bass

  • (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note.
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Mud bath

  • noun a bath in warm mud (as for treating rheumatism)
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  • an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease.
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Mud boat

  • a large flatboat used in deredging.
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mud brick

  • noun a brick made from baked mud
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Mud cat

  • . See Catfish.
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Mud crab

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus.
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Mud dab

  • (Zoöl.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab.
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Mud dauber

  • noun wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae
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  • (Zoöl.), a mud wasp.
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Mud devil

  • (Zoöl.), the fellbender.
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mud digger

  • noun a laborer who digs ditches
    ditch digger.
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Mud drum

  • (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal.
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Mud eel

  • (Zoöl.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (Siren lacertina), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren.
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mud flat

  • noun a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
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Mud frog

  • (Zoöl.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).
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Mud hen

  • noun a coot found in North America
    water hen; Fulica americana; marsh hen; American coot.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The American coot (Fulica Americana) . (b) The clapper rail.
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Mud lark

  • a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. Slang
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mud midget

  • noun having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America
    Wolffiella gladiata; bogmat.
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Mud minnow

  • (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels.
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mud pie

  • noun a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie
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mud plantain

  • noun grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms
    Heteranthera dubia; water star grass.
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Mud plug

  • a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
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mud puddle

  • noun a puddle of mud
    • the children loved a mud puddle
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Mud puppy

  • noun aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills
    Necturus maculosus.
  • noun large salamander of North American rivers and streams
    Cryptobranchus alleganiensis; hellbender.
  • noun larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing
    axolotl; Ambystoma mexicanum.
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  • (Zoöl.), the menobranchus.
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Mud scow

  • a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. U.S.
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mud stain

  • noun a stain produced by mud
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mud turtle

  • noun bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America
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Mud turtle, Mud tortoise

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
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Mud wasp

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepæus, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber.
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mud-beplastered

  • adjective satellite covered with or as if with mud
    • mud-beplastered arguments
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mud-brick

  • adjective of or incorporating mud bricks
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mud-wrestle

  • verb wrestle in mud
    mudwrestle.
    • some people enjoy watching people who mudwrestle
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sea mud

Sea" mud`
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  1. A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.
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stick-in-the-mud

  • noun someone who moves slowly
    plodder; slowcoach; slowpoke.
    • in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach
  • adjective satellite (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stodgy.
    • moss-grown ideas about family life
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Volcanic mud

  • fetid, sulphurous mud discharged by a volcano.
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