| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| mud | (noun) slanderous remarks or charges | - |
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| (noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth | Synonyms: clay |
| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck, muck up |
| (verb) plaster with mud | - |
| mudcat | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: catfish |
| mudder | (noun) a racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack | - |
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| muddied | (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddy |
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| muddiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, murkiness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: sloppiness, wateriness |
| muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| muddled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| muddy | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: mucky |
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| (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddied |
| (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (verb) make turbid | - |
| (verb) cause to become muddy | - |
| (verb) dirty with mud | Synonyms: muddy up |
| mudguard | (noun) a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels | Synonyms: splash-guard, splash guard |
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| mudhif | (noun) a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained | - |
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| mudra | (noun) ritual hand movement in religion or religious dancing, particularly in Hinduism or Buddhism | - |
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| mudskipper | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudspringer |
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| mudslide | (noun) a landslide of mud | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| remuda | (noun) the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smutch |
| smudgy | (adjective) smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination | - |
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