mudhouse

English

Etymology

mud +‎ house

Noun

mudhouse (plural mudhouses)

  1. A simple house built primarily of mud.
    • 1963, Allen J. Ellender, "United States Foreign Operations in Africa", in United States. Congress, Reports and Documents (volume 19, page 168)
      The new villages are built of mortar and brick, some of stone, and are a far cry from the villages of mudhouses.
    • 1955, Moses Zebi Frank, Sound the great trumpet, page 37:
      The settlers' mudhouses were swamped and they could not get out.
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