Glorious mud

Another wet one and lots of mud about. Did you know that Sussex has at least 30 words for mud, based on the type and where in the county you are? Here are some of them:

Clodgy – muddy and wet, like a field path after heavy rain
Gawm – especially sticky, foul-smelling mud
Gubber – black mud of rotting organic matter
Ike – a mess or area of mud
Pug – a kind of loam, particularly the sticky yellow Wealden clay
Slab – the thickest mud
Sleech – mud or river sediment used for manure
Slob – thick mud
Slough – a muddy hole
Slub – thick mud
Slurry – diluted mud, saturated with so much water that it cannot drain
Smeery – wet and sticky surface mud
Stoach – to trample ground, like cattle; also the silty mud at Rye harbour
Stodge – thick puddingy mud
Stug – watery mud
Swank – a bog