mudslide

See also: mud slide

English

Etymology

From mud +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mudslide (plural mudslides)

1. A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
   • 2019 July 25, “Chinese landslide kills 15, 30 still missing”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on July 25, 2019, News‎^[2]:

     A mudslide in the south-western province of Guizhou has resulted in 15 deaths. Thirty people are still missing as the search continues.

   • 2021 July 18, Neil Vigdor, “What Is Flash Flooding, and How Can You Avoid It?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Flooding occurs in areas where the ground is unable to absorb all of the water, according to forecasters, who explained that flash flooding can also be caused by mudslides or breaks in dams or levees.

2. A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 997:

     […] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.

Synonyms

• mudflow

Translations

geological disaster in which a large amount of mud gathers and moves rapidly down a hill or slope

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥石流 (zh) (níshíliú), 土石流 (zh) (tǔshíliú), 泥流 (zh) (níliú)

• Danish: mudderstrøm c
• Dutch: aardverschuiving (nl) f, grondverschuiving (nl) f, modderstroom (nl)
• Estonian: rusuvool
• Finnish: mutavyöry (fi)
• French: coulée de boue f
• Georgian: ღვარცოფი (ɣvarcopi)
• German: Schlammlawine f, Murgang m, Mure (de) f
• Hungarian: sárcsuszamlás
• Indonesian: lumpur longsor
• Irish: sleamhnú láibe m, sciorradh láibe m
• Japanese: 崖崩れ (ja) (がけくざれ、gakekuzare), 泥流 (ja) (でいりゅう, deiryū), 土石流 (ja) (どせきりゅう, dosekiryū)
• Korean: 이류 (iryu), 진흙 사태 (jinheuk satae), 토석류 (ko) (toseongnyu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: tanah runtuh (ms)
• Polish: powódź błotna m
• Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m
• Russian: сель (ru) m (selʹ), о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ)
• Spanish: deslizamiento (es) m, flujo de lodo m, huaico (es) m
• Swedish: ras (sv) n, slamström (sv), lerskred (sv) n
• Thai: โคลนถล่ม (kloon-tà-lòm)
• Turkish: çamur akıntısı
• Vietnamese: lở đất (vi)

See also

• landslide