Mud-major, subs. (military).—An infantry major: i.e., one who, on
parade, commands a company on foot.
Mud-picker, subs. (military).—A garrison policeman.
Mud-player, subs. (cricketers’).—A batsman partial to a soft wicket.
Mud-plunging, subs. (tramps’).—Tramping through slush in search of
sympathy.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 8 Feb., p. 3, col. I. ‘The bitterest sort of
weather is their [cadgers’] weather, and it doesn’t matter if it’s
house-to-house work or chanting, or mud-plunging, it’s cold work.’
Mud-salad Market, subs. phr. (common).—Covent Garden.
1880. Punch, 14 Aug., p. 71. Mud-salad Market belongs to His Grace
the Duke of Mudford. It was once a tranquil Convent Garden.
Mud-sill, subs. (American).—1. A low-born, ignorant, contemptible
wretch.