mudhead

mudhead

English

Etymology

MUD +‎ -head

Noun

mudhead (plural mudheads)

1. (computing, slang, rare) A dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.
   • 1997, Stuart Berg Flexner, ‎Anne H. Soukhanov, Speaking Freely (page 72)

     […] true mudheads sometimes spent so much time at it that they lost jobs, alienated friends, and failed to obtain academic degrees in the quest to attain wizard status.

   • 2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere (page 104)

     “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.”
     “I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]