1
: a person who grubs in mud (as in search of stray bits of coal, iron, rope)
specifically
: an urchin who grubs for a living along the tide flats of the English Thames
2
a
dialectal, England
: pipit
b
: any of various birds (as the meadowlark or the shoveler) that live in moist places
c
: the Australian magpie lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) that makes mud nests
: to play, dig, or search in mud or on muddy ground
had been out all the morning sailing cork boats and mudlarking in the marshes—
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“Mud lark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mud%20lark. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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