muddy
意味
- 泥をかぶった,泥だらけの,ぬかるみの
- (液体・光・音などが)濁った,曇った
- (考え・表現などが)混乱した,はっきりしない
- 〈衣服・手足など〉を泥で汚す;〈道など〉をぬかるみにする
- 〈液体・色など〉を濁らせる
- 〈考え・討論など〉を混乱させる
例文
Don't tramp in the living room with muddy feet.
泥だらけの足で居間をどたどたあるいてはいけない。
It rained heavily, so the playground is muddy.
雨がひどく降ったのでグラウンドはぐしゃぐしゃだ。
We've had a heavy rain, so the playground is muddy.
雨がひどく降ったのでグラウンドはぐしゃぐしゃだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English muddi, moddy, muddy (“covered with or full of mud, muddy”), from mud, mudde (“mud; turbid water”) + -i (suffix forming adjectives). Mud, mudde is possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch modde, and/or Middle Low German modde, mudde, from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). The English word is analysable as mud + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Doublet of muddle. The verb is derived from the adjective. cognates * Middle Low German moddich, muddich (German Low German muddig (“muddy; mouldy”))