mudhole

[ muhd-hohl ]

noun

1. a depression in which mud collects.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mudhole¹

An Americanism dating back to 1745–55; mud + hole

Example Sentences

The water drained into a shallow low depression in a large meadow, and made a mudhole, a cattle wallow.

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Three miserable weeks I spent somewhere in some stinking Southern Pacific mudhole.

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The novice is almost certain to run it into a ditch the first thing, or get stuck on a hill, or in a sand patch or a mudhole.

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There's been enough rubbers lost in that mudhole to about fill it, so it won't take much to fill it up.

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Every mile or so we had to plunge through a quagmire, equal to the worst South African mudhole, which is saying a great deal.

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