noun1. a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc
2. informal slander or defamation
3. clear as mud
4. drag someone's name in the mud
5. here's mud in your eye
6. someone's name is mud
7. throw mud at
verbWord forms: muds, mudding or mudded8. (transitive) to soil or cover with mud
Word origin
C14: probably from Middle Low German
mudde; compare Middle High German
mot swamp, mud, Swedish
modd slush