Usually means: Covered or filled with wet dirt.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. muddy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muddy: Merriam-Webster
  3. muddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. muddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muddy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. muddy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Muddy, muddy: Wordnik
  8. muddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. muddy: Wiktionary
  10. muddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. muddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. muddy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Muddy, muddy: Dictionary.com
  14. muddy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Muddy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. muddy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. muddy: Rhymezone
  18. muddy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. muddy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. muddy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. muddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. muddy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. muddy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muddy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muddy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. muddy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. muddy, muddy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. muddy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See muddied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
adjective:  Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
adjective:  Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
adjective:  (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
adjective:  (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Dirty, filthy.
adjective:  Not clear.
adjective:  Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
adjective:  Of an image: blurry or dim.
adjective:  Of light: cloudy, opaque.
adjective:  Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
adjective:  Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
adjective:  (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
adjective:  Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
adjective:  (archaic) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
adjective:  (obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
verb:  To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
verb:  To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
verb:  To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
verb:  To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
verb:  To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
verb:  Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
verb:  (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
noun:  (Australia, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, informal) The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).

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