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mudge

noun
/mʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of budge, under the influence of move.

  1. inherited from *slikiz✻
  2. inherited from *sliki✻
  3. inherited from *sliċ✻
  4. inherited from slugge
  5. compounded as mudge — “mud + sludge”

Definitions

  1. mud

    mud; sludge

  2. To move oneself

    To move oneself; to stir.

    • 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.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mudge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA