London vs Mudlark - What's the difference?
london | mudlark |
The capital city of the United Kingdom and of England, situated near the mouth of the River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.
A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
A city in Ohio, USA, with a population of approximately 9,000.
A city in Kentucky, USA, with a population of approximately 8,000.
A city in Arkansas, USA, with a population of approximately 900.
A city in California, USA, with a population of approximately 1,800.
A community in Texas, USA, with a population of approximately 180.
A community in West Virginia, USA.
A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
for someone from London.
(rare) transferred from the place name.
* 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 178:
(slang) A pig; pork.
One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London during the Industrial Revolution. Also applies to a person scavenging sewers. A person that begs near a river. (rare) A sewer cleaner. (rare)
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*1995 , Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing , Vintage 2007, p. 104:
*:the children were nothing like inert: a large population of junior mudlarks , so long unwashed that you could hardly make them out, climbed among the ruins, cheerfully playing the games that all children play – pushing wheels with sticks, flipping rusty lids and bottle caps in makeshift tiddlywinks.
A child who spends most of their time in the streets especially in slum areas. A child who plays in the mud. Any dirty or unkempt person.
Nickname for a soldier of the Royal Engineers.
Assorted birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud. Especially and Alauda arvensis .
(Australian) The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
A racing horse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks.
As a proper noun london
is the capital city of the united kingdom and of england, situated near the mouth of the river thames in southeast england, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.As a noun mudlark is
(slang) a pig; pork.london
English
(wikipedia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London .