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the original skincare line, beloved by hippos and supermodels alike
means Wet, soft earth — the soggy mix of soil and water that cakes your boots and swallows your shoes.
from From Middle English 'mudde,' likely borrowed from Middle Low German 'mudde' or Middle Dutch 'modde,' part of a sticky family of Germanic words for muck and mire. The deeper root is thought to relate to a Proto-Indo-European base meaning 'wet' or 'damp,' the same swampy ancestor that gives us 'moist' and 'mother' in some reconstructions — though the precise trail, fittingly, gets a little murky.
- hippo sunscreen
- their red sweat plus mud blocks UV rays
- battle of mud
- Passchendaele drowned soldiers in liquid earth
- life starter
- primordial mud may have birthed first life
- acoustic trick
- mud preserves dinosaur footprints for 100 million years
- name shame
- your name is mud entered English by 1820
dead sea mud — mineral-rich therapeutic mud from the lowest point on earth at -1,410 feet, used in spas worldwide
amazon river mud — sediment deposits in the world's largest river system that shift 2.3 billion tons annually
potala palace mud brick — construction material used in lhasa, tibet's 13-story palace built starting in 1645