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单词 mudhole
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mudholen.

Brit. /ˈmʌdhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈmədˌ(h)oʊl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mud n.1, hole n.
Etymology: < mud n.1 + hole n.
1.
a. A hole containing mud or in which mud collects, esp. one which forms a defect or obstacle in a road; spec. a hot mud spring.
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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
1721 J. Wise Word of Comfort 55 And its well if more then one Third of our Supply [of money]..is not stopt by this means, like Stagnate Waters, in Pits and Mud-holes.
1753 Moravian Diary in D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 346 Our wagon stuck fast in a mud-hole.
1784 A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews Andrew Ellicott (1908) 26 The ground [was] covered with Snow which hid the Mud-Holes.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. ii. 186 Stumps and cradle heaps, mud-holes and miry swails, succeeded one another.
1857 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. xx. 314 I thought of a desperate mudhole about a quarter of a mile ahead;..many wagons had stuck in it.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxiii. 257 I heard afterwards he had been so indiscreet as to get himself tied up by the neck with a rattan halter to a post planted in the middle of a mud-hole before the Rajah's house.
1948 Coast to Coast 1947 71 Those tourist people came and looked at his boiling spring and his bubbling mudhole.
1962 W. Faulkner Reivers v. 101 ‘What you been doing? wrassling with hogs?’ ‘We got in a mudhole.’
1994 Leisure Manager Aug. 69/1 The high infiltration rate..prevents the formation of mudholes, as well as lessening turf damage.
b. A hole at the base of a boiler, condenser, etc., through which sediment can be removed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > parts of > other parts
saddle1688
float1753
fire door1765
mudhole1824
stay-bolt1839
water table1856
hydrostat1858
mud drum1864
vomit1880
hydrokineter1883
retarder1890
1824 Brit. Patent 5021 (1855) 5 A mud hole door may be provided in the extreme end of the said central cylinder.
1841 W. Templeton Locomotive Engine 16 The mud holes..are for the purpose of removing the sediment and scale that constantly accumulate at the bottom of the water spaces.
1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night ii. 66 No. 607 needs repair in..mud-hole flanges and blower-cocks.
1953 J. H. Milton Marine Steam Boilers v. 59 When..the mudhole is fitted with a compensating ring and the internal jointing face on the shell is badly cut up through..leakage, a difficult situation..is created.
1957 Handbk. for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen (Brit. Transport Commission) 53 Washout plugs, Handhole and Mudhole Doors. These are fitted to facilitate periodical inspection and cleaning of the boiler water spaces.
2. figurative.
a. A despised place; a place of filth and squalor.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > small town > unimportant small town
mudhole1784
toytown1816
Podunk1840
one-horse town1855
tank town1906
jerkwater1912
Hicksville1921
bumfuck1972
1784 in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1877) 1 51 The general curse of the country, disunion, rages in this little mudhole [sc. Uniontown, Pa.].
1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 324 I could not but laugh at the preposterous vanity of my worthy countrymen, which induces them to designate such a dirty little mudhole as I caught a glimpse of..by the sounding name [City and port of Chattanooga].
1900 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 769/2 Alexander Shepherd did for Washington what Baron Haussmann did for Paris. Shepherd found Washington a mudhole, and left it the city of beauty it is to-day.
1958 J. Carew Black Midas x. 231 The thought of returning to the mud-hole where I was born made me shy away.
1991 J. Caplan Memories of Gorbals (BNC) 4 Tens of thousands died terribly within and around those rat-infested mud-holes of Hell and Damnation.
b. A situation or factor that impedes progress or entraps a person.Typically used in the context of an extended metaphor.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
hinderc1200
withsetting1340
obstaclec1385
traversea1393
mara1400
bayc1440
stoppagec1450
barrace1480
blocka1500
objecta1500
clog1526
stumbling-stone1526
bar1530
(to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548
stumbling-stock1548
hindrance1576
a log in one's way1579
crossbar1582
log1589
rub1589
threshold1600
scotch1601
dam1602
remora1604
obex1611
obstructiona1616
stumbling-blocka1616
fence1639
affront1642
retardance1645
stick1645
balk1660
obstruent1669
blockade1683
sprun1684
spoke1689
cross cause1696
uncomplaisance1707
barrier1712
obstruct1747
dike1770
abatis1808
underbrush1888
bunker1900
bump1909
sprag1914
hurdle1924
headwind1927
mudhole1933
monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
1933 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 2 270 If the Negro college graduate is going out to wallow in the same mud-holes, if he is going out with the same myopic vision.., it is obvious that the objectives of the Negro college may be seriously questioned.
1938 S. V. Benét Thirteen o'Clock 317 We've all of us been on your back long enough... I know of twice you pulled Jerry Pye out of the mudhole.
1948 R. W. Chapman Lexicography 7 Charles Cannan..remarked that the Dictionary ‘went wrong’ when Henry Bradley fell into a mud-hole. By this he meant that the Dictionary departed..from the scale laid down, and did so by the inclusions of too many obvious combinations.
1972 P. White Let. 27 Feb. (1994) 392 The only thing that keeps me going is to look back towards the beginning and finding bits I thought the most depressing mudholes now as clear as crystal springs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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