mudder slang (chiefly U.S.).
(ˈmʌdə(r))
[f. mud n.1 + -er1.]
A horse which runs well on a wet or muddy racecourse; transf., a sportsman or team similarly proficient.
| 1903 Outing XLIII. 266/2 ‘He's a mudder,’ he growled, ‘and the track today will be like lightning.’ 1935 Amer. Speech X. 315/2 Grand Slam,..winner of the Arlington futurity.., is a good mudder. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 13/1 Off-Track Seen. Rain today made the prospect for off-going for the first card, thus giving the ‘mudders’ an opportunity to strut their stuff. 1942 Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §683/1 Football player...mudder, mudlark, a player for whom a wet field is no great handicap. 1948 Time 1 Nov. 44/3 Halfback Jack Swaner, a superior mudder, had a big day scoring all three touchdowns. 1950 New Yorker 11 Nov. 121/2 Cornell's last one [sc. fumble] gave Columbia, a remarkably good mudder, the chance to tie the score in the fourth quarter. 1952 Time 5 May 71/1 Gehrmann and Druetzler proved no mudders and..Purdue's Denis Johansson..splashed past the leaders on the last lap. 1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 29 Will-o'-the-Wisp in the fifth at Hialeah... He's a mudder... It rained all last night in Hialeah. 1969 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Jan. 1/9 Chance for ‘mudders’..after last night's flash storm in Brisbane. 1975 New Yorker 24 Mar. 64/1 In my book, Stardust Mel is the best mudder in California. Early last month Mrs. Marjorie Lindheimer Everett's rangy gray gelding splattered through the rain and murk to win. |