mudslide

See also: mud slide

English

Etymology

mud +‎ slide

Noun

mudslide (plural mudslides)

1. A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
2. A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 997:

     […] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.

Synonyms

• mudflow

Translations

geological disaster in which a large amount of mud gathers and moves rapidly down a hill or slope

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥石流 (zh) (níshíliú), 土石流 (zh) (tǔshíliú), 泥流 (zh) (níliú)

• Danish: mudderstrøm c
• Dutch: aardverschuiving (nl) f, grondverschuiving (nl) f, modderstroom (nl)
• Estonian: rusuvool
• Finnish: mutavyöry (fi)
• French: coulée de boue f
• Georgian: ღვარცოფი (ɣvarcopi)
• German: Schlammlawine f, Murgang m, Mure (de) f
• Hungarian: sárcsuszamlás
• Indonesian: lumpur longsor
• Irish: sleamhnú láibe m, sciorradh láibe m
• Japanese: 崖崩れ (ja) (がけくざれ、gakekuzare), 泥流 (ja) (でいりゅう, deiryū), 土石流 (ja) (どせきりゅう, dosekiryū)
• Korean: 이류 (iryu), 진흙 사태 (jinheuk satae), 토석류 (ko) (toseongnyu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: tanah runtuh (ms)
• Polish: powódź błotna m
• Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m
• Russian: сель (ru) m (selʹ), о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ)
• Spanish: deslizamiento (es) m, flujo de lodo m
• Swedish: ras (sv) n, slamström (sv), lerskred (sv) n
• Thai: โคลนถล่ม (kloon-tà-lòm)
• Turkish: çamur akıntısı
• Vietnamese: lở đất (vi)

See also

• landslide