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Samuel Mudd is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", as in, for example, the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd's birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word "mud" meaning "a stupid twaddling fellow".
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt came from Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was believed to have helped John Wilkes Booth in the assasination plan. He insisted he wasn't, but no one believed him. Thus came the trerm 'Your name is Mudd', basicly meaning what you say isn't to be trusted. It was later prooved he didn't help Booth, but the term continues.
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