muddy

(Anglès)

Adj

1. Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
2. Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
3. Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
4. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
5. (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
6. (figuratively) Dirty, filthy.
7. (figuratively) Not clear.
8. (figuratively) Not clear.
9. (figuratively) Not clear.
10. (figuratively) Not clear.
11. (figuratively) Not clear.
12. (figuratively) Not clear.
13. (figuratively, literary, poetic) Not clear.
14. (figuratively) Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
15. (archaic, figuratively) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
16. (figuratively, obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
2. (transitive) To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
6. (figuratively, transitive) To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
7. (figuratively, transitive) To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
8. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.
9. (also, figuratively, intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
10. (intransitive) Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
11. (figuratively, intransitive) To become contaminated or impure.

Noun

The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈmʌdi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: muddi

Cognat amb Middle Low German: moddich

In summary

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”))

Conceptes

fangós

enfangar

llotós

enllotar

tèrbol

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pantanós

brut

enterbolir

Sinònims

turbid

dirty

miry

filthy

cloudy

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mucky

foul

marshy

murky

thick

boggy

slushy

dull

sloppy

swampy

soil

soiled

blear

sloughy

quaggy

cloud

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stagnant

clayey

muddy up

rotten

putrid

roil

impure

wet

mirky

muddied

confused

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mire

waterlogged

squashy

draggle

splashy

soggy

smutty

sludgy

dingy

sticky

roily

pulpy

silty

defile

puddle

oozy

blurred

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