muddier

English

Etymology 1

Comparative form of muddy

Adjective

muddier

  1. Comparative form of muddy: more muddy.
    • 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 57:
      Brunel took a site-specific approach - for example, using stone piers for many of the longer and loftier spans, but timber piles for muddier environs that called for lighter-weight structures.

Etymology 2

From muddy +‎ -er (agentive suffix).

Noun

muddier (plural muddiers)

  1. One who muddies or obscures something.
    • 1997, Charles Manning Hope Clark, Speaking Out of Turn: Lectures and Speeches, 1940-1991, page 33:
      These people will be standing on entrenched ground; they will not be distracted or seduced by the trivialisers, or the muddiers of the waters. Above all, those who care, including you, will be watching to see the direction of the great river of life.
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