====== Liste der englischen Ausdrücke für `mud´ ======
Dass Eskimos rund 40 verschiedene Begriffe für Schnee haben, ist ein [[wiki:ammenmaerchen|moderner Mythos]]. Kein Mythos dagegen ist das englische Begriffs-Universum rund um `[[wiki:schlamm|Schlamm´]] wie die nachstehende Tabelle zeigt. Ein [[wiki:Schelm|Schelm]], wer dabei ans englische Wetter denkt. In der Regenzeit lässt sich auf afrikanischen [[wiki:pisten|Pisten]] die Erfahrung machen, dass ein Lenkrad völlig wirkungslos wird und Bremsen selbstmörderisch ist, weil [[wiki:raeder|Räder und Reifen]] nicht mehr greifen.

^ Babbing | stirring up the mud |
^ Blather | soft mud, slime |
^ Blett | black muddy soil |
^ Cabby | muddy |
^ Caudle | a thick and muddy fluid |
^ Claister | a person bedaubed with mud |
^ Clared | covered with mud |
^ Clency | muddy |
^ Clobber | mud, clay |
^ Clobberboy | one who becomes muddy in walking |
^ Clog | cover with mud |
^ Dabbled | made wet and muddy |
^ Draggle | to trail in the mud |
^ Drengy | thick muddy |
^ Drumble | to make muddy |
^ Drumbled | muddled |
^ Druvy | Muddy, dirty |
^ Duddly | foul, muddy |
^ Eyper | mud with sewage or drainage from farmyards |
^ Gammy | muddy road |
^ Gaum, gawm | to besmear, daub, soil, to make sticky or greasy |
^ Gaumy | adhesive muddy |
^ Glaur | to wade or stick in the mud |
^ Glauroch | Soft muddy hole |
^ Glaury, glarry | soft mud, mire, filthy, smooth and shining in surface |
^ Hocksy | muddy, soft, sticky |
^ Klagge (dän.) | sticky mud |
^ Labbery | miry, muddy |
^ Lag | to draggle in the mud |
^ Lig | a dirty mess of mud on the bottom |
^ Laggy, Liggy | muddy, mucky |
^ Lair-hole | a muddy hole, a boggy spot |
^ Laired | choked up with mud |
^ Lape | to walk through mud or mire |
^ Leir | clay, mud, |
^ Miry | kotig, sumpfig, morastig, schlammig |
^ Pant | bespattered all over with mud |
^ Plash | a splash of mud |
^ Plodder | soft liquid, slimy mud |
^ Slabber | to walk through mud |
^ Slaich | slime, wet and muddy, soft and disgusting |
^ Slairg | to besmear with mud |
^ Slattery | muddy, sloppy |
^ Slauming | muddy |
^ Slosh | mud, mire |
^ Slubby | Der klebrige Boden, wo Enten ins Wasser rutschen |
^ Slump | a muddy place, swamp |
^ Slunk | a deep hollow or rut in a road, mud, mire |
^ Slurry | thin, watery mud |
^ Smudge | to cover with smuts, mud |
^ Splatch | a clot of mud thrown up |
^ Stoggy | muddy, wet and sticky |
^ Sue, Sew | mud oozing up |
 
''Joseph Wright''\\ //The English dialect dictionary//\\ being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years\\ Putnams, New York 1905, 7 Bände