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Muddies vs Middies - What's the difference?

muddies | middies |

As a verb muddies

is (muddy).

As a noun middies is

or middies can be (slang) middle-grade marijuana.

muddies

English

Verb

(head)
  • (muddy)

    • muddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
    • He slogged across the muddy field.
    Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
  • With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
    • The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the epic struggle.
  • Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
    • The picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.
  • Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
  • * Burke
    • cold hearts and muddy understandings
  • * Shakespeare
    • dost think I am so muddy , so unsettled
  • (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.

    • Verb

  • To get mud on (something).
    • If you muddy your shoes don't wear them inside.
  • To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.
    • The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
  • * 2014 , Steve Rose, " Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian , 1 July 2014:
    • As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy .

    middies

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Shortening of middle (possibly either genitive or plural).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Middle-grade marijuana.
    • Synonyms
    * (l)
    Coordinate terms
    * (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)