Mud vs Mudlark - What's the difference?
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(video game genre, online gaming) An interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.
(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.