muddyish

English

Etymology

muddy +‎ -ish

Adjective

muddyish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat muddy.
    • 1823, Henry Pellatt, Sprees of the Hall: Of Casualty, a Poem:
      Which in my fountain was, is muddyish, scant, and low.
    • 1840, William Hamilton, Memoir on the Cultivation of Wheat within the Tropics, page 70:
      If the ashes which remain are red, mix ed with particles of charcoal, and especially if they form a muddyish water, and the earth does not readily fall down, the soil, whence it was taken, may be advantageously burned.
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