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Muddy Mississippi en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmʌdi ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/

Meanings

1. (informal) The Mississippi River, in particular downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River.
   • 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
   • 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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