Definition of Muddy up

1. Verb. Dirty with mud.

Exact synonyms: Muddy
Generic synonyms: Begrime, Bemire, Colly, Dirty, Grime, Soil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muddy Up

muddleheadedly
muddleheadedness
muddleheads
muddler
muddlers
muddles
muddles through
muddlier
muddliest
muddling
muddling through
muddlingly
muddly
muddy the waters
muddy up (current term)
muddying
mudejar
mudejares
mudfish
mudfishes
mudflap
mudflaps
mudflat
mudflats
mudflow
mudflows
mudge
mudged
mudger

Literary usage of Muddy up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me ..."

2. The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, Midnight, July 15, 1779: Its by Henry Phelps Johnston (1900)
"... perhaps from not knowing how to value such things at the time—more so, however, from excessive fatigue and my clothes being muddy up to my neck and torn ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"Arriving at the foot of a cachimbo, Salome halted and said to her brother : — " What if the cows were to muddy up the water ? They are certain to, ..."

4. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"She asked him did he remember sending her white trousers, muddy up to the waist to wash ? He replied that he did more than once, as whenever he could not ..."

5. The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston by Elizabeth Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903)
"Poor fellows ! with their broken down horses, muddy up to the eyes, and their muddy wallets and blankets, they looked like an army of ..."

6. Now it Can be Told by Philip Gibbs (1920)
"I liked the look of them, dusty up to the eyes in summer, muddy up to their eyes in winter—these gipsy fellows, scornful of discipline for ..."

7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me ..."

8. The Storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, Midnight, July 15, 1779: Its by Henry Phelps Johnston (1900)
"... perhaps from not knowing how to value such things at the time—more so, however, from excessive fatigue and my clothes being muddy up to my neck and torn ..."

9. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"Arriving at the foot of a cachimbo, Salome halted and said to her brother : — " What if the cows were to muddy up the water ? They are certain to, ..."

10. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"She asked him did he remember sending her white trousers, muddy up to the waist to wash ? He replied that he did more than once, as whenever he could not ..."

11. The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston by Elizabeth Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903)
"Poor fellows ! with their broken down horses, muddy up to the eyes, and their muddy wallets and blankets, they looked like an army of ..."

12. Now it Can be Told by Philip Gibbs (1920)
"I liked the look of them, dusty up to the eyes in summer, muddy up to their eyes in winter—these gipsy fellows, scornful of discipline for ..."

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