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单词 muddied
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muddiedadj.

Brit. /ˈmʌdɪd/, U.S. /ˈmədid/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muddy v., muddy adj., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < muddy v. or muddy adj. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier mudded adj.
1. Covered with mud, muddy; (of water) discoloured and made cloudy by the presence of soil or mud; turbid. muddied oaf n. (often in allusion to quot. 1902; cf. muddy oaf n. at muddy adj. and n.2 Compounds 3.)
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the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque > specific muddy or turbid
druvya1300
drublya1340
oozya1398
feculent1471
troublous1495
mudlya1500
drumlya1522
troublish?1527
puddled1559
puddly1559
suddy1587
muddy1590
droumy1605
muddled1624
turbid1626
turbidous1628
puddlish1633
muddied1642
scuddy1797
roily1823
blundered1855
jumbly1864
mudded1898
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy
fennyc897
bymodereda1307
slutchedc1400
muddyc1450
miry?c1475
slabby1542
mired1558
mudded1598
muddied1642
mucksy1665
shabby1705
sludgy1782
slushy1791
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C6v With muddied arms of trees the earth it [sc. the torrent] strows.
1656 E. Calamy et al. in E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue Ep. to Rdr. sig. A5 The muddied fountain casteth forth foul streams.
a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. (1798) IV. 48 I..do not expect muddied water to become clear before it has had time to stand.
1865 W. J. Linton Claribel & Other Poems 72 Year after year..The muddied Wye still flows.
1902 R. Kipling Islanders 28 Then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.
1935 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 248 The typical houses of the Valochase, Valovale and Valunda are rectangular, with muddied walls and thatched roofs.
1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. iv. 160 No amount of writing about flannelled fools at the wicket and muddied oafs in the goal by Rudyard Kipling could save the British Empire from ultimate collapse.
1998 M. Schneider Panic Bird 32 The small self..deepens Like a muddied puddle that suddenly holds Blue sky.
2. Confused, muddled; hard to perceive or understand; garbled; blurred.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > not discriminated
undistinct1534
promiscuous1570
muddy?1571
confounded1572
confuse1577
undistinguished1598
indistinct1604
indistinguished1608
confused1611
muddied1647
indiscriminate1649
indiscriminated1669
undiscriminated1768
unselect1826
unspecialized1874
1647 H. More Cupid's Confl. xvii How would'st thou then my muddied mind deceive With fading shows.
1746 A. Hill Art of Acting 8 Not always, shall Ambition's muddied Brain Work to persuade.
1885 Cent. Mag. Nov. 89/1 I know nothing more indicative of the muddied sentiment of the time.
1921 Jrnl. Philos. 18 611 When Dr. Edman..sets out to justify reason and the life of reason, he is driven to gloss over its essential character..and to treat it as some vague precipitate of muddied and perturbed reflexes.
1985 N. Bagnall Defence of Clichés ii. 32 His message is muddied and darkened with a great many Hartleianisms.
1994 Prairie Fire Summer 189 He developed a system to reproduce engravings using photographic principles, and in 1827 took a picture entitled View from his Window at Le Gras, a muddied heliograph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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