mudhole
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈmʌdˌhoʊl/
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charco
- The children jumped over the mudhole to avoid getting their shoes dirty.
- a deep mudhole
Examples
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Back to the mudhole we totter with our armloads of boards.
Fiction book (1993) -
Beyond the mudhole are the day's chores that all need doing: fixing the fence of the saddle pasture, then rounding up the necessary horses of summer: Tony, Duffy, Sugar, and Star.
Fiction book (1993) -
Look for a little mudhole up through the next pocket.
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We hope to give us a running start out of the mudhole.
Fiction book (1993) -
Forty miles from mudhole to mudhole.
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I'll need it to get out of this slimy mudhole.
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Hammerhead began to move around the perimeter of the mudhole.
Fiction book (1994) -
Outside, milkweed and lupine could kill them; mudholes could suck them down.
Fiction book (1999) -
Birch chatted on about the mudhole on the banks of the James Fork Creek that had trapped four cattle at once.
Fiction book (1992) -
After the rain, the garden became a muddy mess with a large mudhole in the center.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small pool of muddy water on the ground after rain
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8.5
Soft wet ground that gives way under your feet
How Muddy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mudhole is simply made from mud ('wet earth') and hole ('a hollow'). It literally means a hole filled with mud, which is exactly the modern, literal meaning.