English Dictionary

muddy

/ˈmʌdi/

adj

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). / Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

The children came home from playing outside, their clothes muddy and their shoes covered in dirt.

意味（1）

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

He slogged across the muddy field.

意味（2）

Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.

意味（3）

Having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.

意味（4）

(euphemistic) Soiled with feces.

意味（5）

(archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.

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.

意味（6）

Dirty, filthy.

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.

意味（7）

Not clear.

To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.

意味（8）

Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.

意味（9）

(archaic) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy.

[N]ot that he gets drunk, for he is a very pious man, but he is always muddy.