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mudding

mudding

6.4
Putting a soft paste on drywall seams and holes to make walls smooth
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌdɪŋ/
  • Specialized
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  • After completing the mudding process, the contractor ensured that the walls were perfectly even.

Examples

  • But we have worked on drywalling and sanding and mudding and painting and all all that type of stuff.

  • The mudding of the drywall created a smooth surface ready for painting.

  • The mudding of a floor isn't three months' worth of work, but it took almost that long.

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  • To achieve the best results, he spent hours on the mudding of the seams in the new house.

Synonyms

plastering
vsmudding
  • Specialized
2 3.6

A way of covering surfaces with a wet paste to make them smooth or decorative

is a specific repair process using joint compound on seams and screw holes
daubing
vsmudding
7.9

A rough layer of mud or plaster spread on a wall

is careful seam and hole finishing using joint compound rather than rough work

How Smooth

finishing
  • Specialized
3.4
mudding
  • Specialized
6.4

Surface Forms

mudding singular
muddings plural

Morphology

mudding = mud (semi-transparent) = mud + ing

The word is built regularly from the verb 'mud' plus '-ing', but the drywall-application sense is a specialized technical extension that is not fully predictable from the everyday meaning.

Etymology

Mudding in building comes from builders calling the drywall paste mud 'soft, wet earth' because it looks and spreads like earth, plus -ing. So mudding means spreading that paste on seams and holes to make smooth walls.