Definitions for mudmʌd

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

mudmʌd(n.; v.)mud•ded, mud•ding.

(n.)wet, soft earth or earthy matter; mire.
Category: Geology
scandalous or malicious assertions or information.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal
(v.t.)to cover or spatter with mud.
to stir up the mud or sediment in.

Origin of mud:

1300–50; ME < MLG mudde. Cf. mother2

Princeton's WordNet

mud, clay(noun)
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
mud(verb)
slanderous remarks or charges
mire, muck, mud, muck up(verb)
soil with mud, muck, or mire
"The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
mud(verb)
plaster with mud

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

mud(noun)ʌd
soft, wet earth
The car got stuck in the mud.

Wiktionary

mud(Noun)
A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
mud(Noun)
A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
mud(Noun)
Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
mud(Noun)
Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.
mud(Noun)
Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
mud(Noun)
stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex
mud(Noun)
A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
mud(Verb)
To make muddy, dirty
mud(Verb)
To make turbid
mud(Verb)
To participate in a MUD, or multi-user dungeon.

Origin: Unattested in Old English; probably cognate with (or perhaps directly borrowed from) modde, modde, mudde (Low German Mudd), (Dutch modder). Non Germanic cognates include Albanian mut 'filth, excrement'

Webster Dictionary

Mud(noun)
earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive
Mud(verb)
to bury in mud
Mud(verb)
to make muddy or turbid

The New Hacker's Dictionary

MUD
[acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.: Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet. These are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple ‘locations’ like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic system, and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world. 2. vi. To play a MUD. The acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of going mudding, etc.Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's DEC-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that game still exist today and are sometimes generically called BartleMUDs. There is a widespread myth (repeated, unfortunately, by earlier versions of this lexicon) that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on British Telecom (the motto: “You haven't lived 'til you've died on MUD!”); however, this is false — Richard Bartle explicitly placed ‘MUD’ in the public domain in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth.Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of these had associated bulletin-board systems for social interaction. Because these had an image as ‘research’ they often survived administrative hostility to BBSs in general. This, together with the fact that Usenet feeds were often spotty and difficult to get in the U.K., made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there.AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the U.S.; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see parallels with the growth of Usenet in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasize social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and competition (in writing, these social MUDs are sometimes referred to as ‘MU*’, with ‘MUD’ implicitly reserved for the more game-oriented ones). By 1991, over 50% of MUD sites were of a third major variety, LPMUD, which synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. In 1996 the cutting edge of the technology is Pavel Curtis's MOO, even more extensible using a built-in object-oriented language. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. Around 1991 there was an unsuccessful movement to deprecate the term MUD itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. It survived. See also bonk/oif, FOD, link-dead, mudhead, talk mode.