mud room

American  

Or mudroom

noun

1. a vestibule or other area in a house, in which wet and muddy clothes or footwear are removed.

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Etymology

Origin of mud room

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

I only have to glance at them now to remember all the times I’d make an entrance through the mud room, head straight to the coffee pot and pour some into one of those mugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

The woman, who was awakened by a crashing sound and her dog growling, discovered a cinnamon-colored black bear weighing about 100 pounds in her mud room, officials said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

If you sense you are about to step into a sword-and-sandal epic with a mud room, you would not be altogether wrong.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

The bumped-out great room has been transformed into a combination mud room, kitchen and dining room.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

This opened at last and I entered a mud room in one end of which a fire of sticks blazed fitfully.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson