English words for 'Alternative form of mudsharking.'
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verb
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
phrase
verb
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
- cook in a simmering liquid
noun
verb
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
noun
verb
noun
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang) Opium.
- (US slang) Lean.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- slanderous remarks or charges
verb
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
noun
- Liquid mud or mire.
- Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).
- partially melted snow
verb
verb
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
noun
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- feed pigs
- ladle clumsily
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- (transitive, games) In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- (intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.
- (transitive) To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
- (transitive) To feed pigs.
noun
- (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
- (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- deep soft mud in water or slush
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- (chiefly in the plural) Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.
- (uncommon, costermongers) A policeman.
- Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
- (uncountable) Semi-solid-like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
- (figurative, derogatory) Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s.
- (sometimes in the plural) Domestic wastewater.
- (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A flip-flop.
- (Internet, artificial intelligence, derogatory) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.
- (slang) Fellatio.
- (sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- make a splashing sound
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
- (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
- (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
noun
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
noun
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
verb
noun
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- suppress or crush completely
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- make a sucking sound
- (intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
- (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
noun
- a crushing remark
- an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
- (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
- (countable) A squelching sound.
- (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
verb
noun
- the noise of soft mud being walked on
- (countable) The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
- (slang) A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
- (countable, politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate.
noun
- Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
- Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
- Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
- (uncommon) A dribbly shower (of rain).
- saliva spilling from the mouth
verb
noun
- A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.
- An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats.
- (slang) A counterfeiter.
- A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
- (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
- (gambling) A scratch card.
- Someone who scratches.
- (slang, derogatory) An unlicensed tattoo artist.
- (slang) A bedding place (e.g., mattress, bunk, hay bed, or bed).
- a person who scratches to relieve an itch
- a device used for scratching
- a workman who uses a tool for scratching
noun
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
verb
noun
- Liquid mud or mire.
- Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
- (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).
- partially melted snow
verb
noun
noun
- Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
- Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
- Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
- (uncommon) A dribbly shower (of rain).
- saliva spilling from the mouth
verb
noun
- A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.
- An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats.
- (slang) A counterfeiter.
- A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
- (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
- (gambling) A scratch card.
- Someone who scratches.
- (slang, derogatory) An unlicensed tattoo artist.
- (slang) A bedding place (e.g., mattress, bunk, hay bed, or bed).
- a person who scratches to relieve an itch
- a device used for scratching
- a workman who uses a tool for scratching
noun
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
verb
verb
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
verb
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
- cook in a simmering liquid
noun
verb
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- make into a puddle
- mix up or confuse
noun
verb
noun
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang) Opium.
- (US slang) Lean.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- slanderous remarks or charges
verb
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
verb
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To form a puddle.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
noun
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- feed pigs
- ladle clumsily
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- (transitive, games) In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
- (intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.
- (transitive) To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
- (transitive) To feed pigs.
noun
- (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
- (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- deep soft mud in water or slush
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- (chiefly in the plural) Inferior, weak drink or semi-liquid food.
- (uncommon, costermongers) A policeman.
- Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
- (uncountable) Semi-solid-like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
- (figurative, derogatory) Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s.
- (sometimes in the plural) Domestic wastewater.
- (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A flip-flop.
- (Internet, artificial intelligence, derogatory) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published in large quantities, posing as human-made content.
- (slang) Fellatio.
- (sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- make a splashing sound
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
- (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
- (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
- (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
noun
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
noun
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
verb
noun
verb
- walk through mud or mire
- suppress or crush completely
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- make a sucking sound
- (intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
- (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
noun
- a crushing remark
- an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
- (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
- (countable) A squelching sound.
- (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
verb
noun
- the noise of soft mud being walked on
- (countable) The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
- (slang) A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
- (countable, politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate.
verb
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery