mudge

See also: Mudge

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

Noun

mudge (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) mud; sludge

References

• Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary.

Verb

mudge (third-person singular simple present mudges, present participle mudging, simple past and past participle mudged)

1. (Scotland, obsolete, intransitive) To move oneself; to stir.
   • 1827, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 21, page 913:

     He could kill a man, I verily believe, without ever bitin' him—just by doonin' him wi' the waght o' his body and his paws, and then lying on the tap o' him, growlin' to throttle and devour him if he mudged.

Anagrams

• degum