muddy mississippi
/ˈmʌdi ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Mississippi River, in particular downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The source of the supply was the "Muddy Mississippi River.""
- "When Cohen speaks of the “desire of the Muddy Mississippi … to pour into the Atchafalaya River and surge into the Gulf a few hundred miles west of its current delta https://muse.jhu.edu/article/881185/summary"
- "Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Prismatic ecology: Ecotheory beyond green. U of Minnesota Press, 2013. The Muddy Mississippi is the brown river, a place of interstices"
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Muddy Mississippi (canonical)