muddy

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

• He slogged across the muddy field.
• Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.

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.

Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.

• [H]er garments, heauy vvith her drinke, / Pul'd the poore vvretch from her melodious buy^([sic – meaning lay]), / To muddy death.

Soiled with feces.euphemistic

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

• 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, su

Dirty, filthy.figuratively

• Thou sweet Arabian Panchaia, / Perfume this nastie age, smugge Lesbia / Hath stinking lunges, although a simpring grace, / A muddy inside, though a sulphul'd face.

Not clear.figuratively

• To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.
• Faces never lie, it is said. […] When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.

Not clear.; Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.figuratively

• Muddy colors are often the result of mixing complementary colors—those opposite each other on the color wheel.

Not clear.; Of an image: blurry or dim.figuratively

Not clear.; Of light: cloudy, opaque.figuratively

To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.transitive

• If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.

To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.transitive

• His life had hitherto been so quiet, so free from strife; […] It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied by rough hands; […]

To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.figurativelytransitive

• The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.

To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.figurativelytransitive

To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.figurativelytransitive

• The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colours to a dull and washed look.

To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).figurativelytransitive

• As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy.

To make (something) impure; to contaminate.figurativelytransitive

To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.figurativelyobsoletetransitive

• […] I am novv ſir muddied in fortunes mood, and ſmell ſomevvhat ſtrong of her ſtrong diſpleaſure.

Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.alsofigurativelyintransitive

Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.intransitive

• Malt before hops, the world over, or the beer muddies.

The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).AustraliaNew-South-Walesinformal