Muddy Mississippi

/ˈmʌdi ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/

proper noun

The Mississippi River, in particular downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River.

“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”

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Meanings

proper nounthe Muddy Mississippi
  1. informalThe Mississippi River, in particular downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River.

    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

    2 more examples

    The source of the supply was the "Muddy Mississippi River."

    Skinker, Thomas J., et al. "DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR A GREATER ST. LOUIS, MO.[with DISCUSSION]." Journal (American Water Works Association) 22.12 (1930): 1583-1608. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41228082

    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

    Publicover, Laurence. "Pericles’s Humming Waters: Nonhuman Agency, Textual Criticism, and the Practice of Material Ecocriticism." Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 280-302

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mississippi river
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Chicago

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