black mud

Noun

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black,‎ mud.

Reduced mud found below the surface of sediments in lakes and rivers, the blackness of which is caused by the occurrence of metal sulphides.

Examples

There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian. Anthony Burgess

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