muddy
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.euphemistic
2. (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.Examples: "There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea."archaic
3. (figuratively)Examples: "There's not the ſmalleſt orbe [in the sky] vvhich thou beholdſt, / But in his motion like an Angell ſings, / Still quiring to the young eide Cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortall ſoules, / But vvhilſt this muddy veſture of decay [i.e., the human body] / Doth groſſely cloſe in it, vve cannot heare it."; "Thou sweet Arabian Panchaia, / Perfume this nastie age, smugge Lesbia / Hath stinking lunges, although a simpring grace, / A muddy inside, though a sulphul'd face."figuratively
4. (figuratively)Examples: "To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy."; "Faces never lie, it is said. […] When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint."; "At the end of a class or a lecture, ask students to write for one or two minutes about the "muddiest point" of the lesson (the part of the lesson that is still not understood clearly)."figuratively
5. (figuratively)Synonyms: faint, wan, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faintfiguratively
6. (figuratively)figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside."; "[T]hey splashed George. He was quiet: they feared they had offended him. Then all the forces of youth burst out. He smiled, flung himself at them, splashed them, ducked them, kicked them, muddied them, and drove them out of the pool."transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "This is at the bottom a dictate of common ſenſe, or the inſtinct of ſelf-defence, peculiar to ignorant weakneſs; reſembling that inſtinct, which makes a fiſh muddy the water it ſwims in to allude its enemy, inſtead of boldly facing it in the clear ſtream."; "His life had hitherto been so quiet, so free from strife; […] It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied by rough hands; […]"transitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject."; "VVhen ſorrovves comes,^([sic – meaning come]) they come not ſingle ſpies, / But in Battalia[n]es. Firſt, her Father ſlaine, / Next your Sonne gone, and he moſt violent Author / Of his ovvne iuſt remoue: the people muddied, / Thicke and vnvvholſome in their thoughts, […]"; "I only recreated an imagination, fatigued by contemplating the vices and follies which all proceed from a feculent ſtream of wealth that has muddied the pure rills of natural affection, […]"figurativelytransitive
4. (transitive)figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colours to a dull and washed look."figurativelytransitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy."; "It may have been effective at conveying the confusion of the situation, but it didn't make for terribly thrilling scenes. The blurry camerawork (quite literally at times) and rapid-fire editing meant that exchanges of blows that should have been viscerally thrilling were often muddied, good for capturing the mood but not much fun to watch."figurativelytransitive
noun (English)
1. (Australia, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, informal) The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).AustraliaNew-South-Walesinformal
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