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mudheap

noun

Etymology

From mud + heap.

  1. derived from *koupos✻
  2. inherited from *haupaz✻
  3. inherited from *haup✻
  4. inherited from hēap
  5. inherited from hepe
  6. compounded as mudheap — “mud + heap”

Definitions

  1. A heap of mud

    A heap of mud; by extension, any pile of metaphorical detritus

    • Pamela Lillard's bluesy urban folk-rock lands her in a ballpark with Vega, Armatrading, Cockburn, and a few others who've rescued forgotten kernels of coolness from the mudheap of outdated singer-songwriter cliches[…

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mudheap. 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