Learn English – the word for mud on road which becomes wet due to rain? / What is keechad called in English
word-request
After the heavy rain falls, the mud becomes so wet that it sticks to your feet if you walk over it.
In Hindi it is called Keechad. What is the word for it in English?
Best Answer
I'd just call it mud. If you want to suggest that it is very wet and sticky, slime or muck would also work.
Since slime can also refer to other liquids besides mud, you could be even more specific by using the two-word phrase slimy mud.
Or if you want to emphasize the stickiness, call it sticky mud.
But this seems unnecessary to me because when we describe something as "mud", the default assumption is that it is not only dirty and wet, but also somewhat fluid and slimy. If it is dirty and wet, but solid and not slimy, we'd be more likely to describe it using other words than "mud," like "damp earth" or "wet ground" or "moist soil."
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I'm not sure of a name for the "bays" of the head, but the hairline itself is referred to as a widow's peak. This idiomatic term has fairly old origins:
The term stems from the belief that hair growing to a point on the forehead – suggestive of the peak of a widow's hood – is an omen of early widowhood.
More general terms you can use are phrases like receding hairline to denote the hairline moving up one's head as they stop growing hair. As for terms for the "bays", something like bald patches or bald spots might be close to what you're looking for.
Best Answer
I'd just call it mud. If you want to suggest that it is very wet and sticky, slime or muck would also work.
Since slime can also refer to other liquids besides mud, you could be even more specific by using the two-word phrase slimy mud.
Or if you want to emphasize the stickiness, call it sticky mud.
But this seems unnecessary to me because when we describe something as "mud", the default assumption is that it is not only dirty and wet, but also somewhat fluid and slimy. If it is dirty and wet, but solid and not slimy, we'd be more likely to describe it using other words than "mud," like "damp earth" or "wet ground" or "moist soil."