mudbathn.
/ˈmʌdbɑːθ/, /ˈmʌdbaθ/, U.S. /ˈmədˌbæθ/ 1. A medicinal or therapeutic bath of heated mud used esp. to relieve rheumatism. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment with mud, sand, etc. > [noun]
pication1684
arenation1717
saburration1763
earth bath1765
mudbath1782
sand-bath1869
moor bath1878
fangotherapy1903
pelotherapy1933
1782 H. Walpole Let. 20 Aug. (1971) XXV. 307 He set out immediately for some German mud-baths.
1828 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 293 Those vices, which a certain class of philosophers have asserted to be a natural preparative for entering on active life; a kind of mud-bath, in which the youth is, as it were, necessitated to steep.
1851 J. Chapman Diary 26 June in G. S. Haight G. Eliot & J. Chapman (1940) 184 Mrs Hennell..thinks..that..pure monogamy..will only be reached thro' a previous age of general licence! I don't agree with her that such a mud bath is at all necessary.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 121/1 The peat baths, or mud baths, have gained much in popularity within a few years.
1961 Times 12 May 19/2 Mr. Beckett's anti-metaphysical mudbath.
1992 Holiday Which? May 152/3 Another good reason for visiting is to take a spa bath... There are over a dozen dotted around, offering everything from mud baths to steam rooms.
2. A muddy place or event.In quot. 1856 a pun on the name of the city of Bath, England.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough
sloughc900
mooreOE
letch1138
mire1219
sougha1300
dew1377
slop?a1400
flashc1440
slothc1440
slonk1488
slot?a1500
rilling1610
slab1610
water-gall1657
slunkc1700
slack1719
mudhole1721
bog-hole1788
spew1794
wetness1805
stabble1821
slob1836
sludge1839
soak1839
mudbath1856
squire-trap1859
loblolly1865
glue-pot1892
swelter1894
poaching1920
1856 D. G. Rossetti Let. 10 Dec. (1965) I. 307 Bath has been a mud-bath ever since I came.
1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 5/1 The remaining cars in the Safari braced themselves for a possible mud bath.
1998 Carriage Driving Oct. 8/2 The heavy rain the night before had turned parts of the showground into a mudbath.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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