Crayfish boils, crab boils, shrimp boils (chitterling struts, clam bakes, pasta feeds) potato boils? Brussels sprout boils? Mud boils?
Gum boils, leg boils, (tooth abscesses, blood blisters,) mud boils?
Obviously, it doesn't belong to the first category, which refer to social events featuring the boiling (or other preparation) of said food item.
Perhaps it comes closer to the second category I could think of, featuring an uncomfortable eruption on the skin. Except in this case, the skin is that of the earth. Well, the earth is our body too, right?
This is a 'mud boil.'
Well, actually, it's several mud boils all conglomerated together through our slow learning and continual attempting to park the truck where we normally park it! This is what happens when all that ice that has been holding the soil rigid for so many months melts, water running everywhere, insufficient gravel to sluice away the water fast enough and to sustain the weight of a half-ton truck, packed clay, compressed moisture, pustule-like eruptions of brobdingnagian proportions!
A new word, or phrasal word, on me. I needed to hear it twice: forgot it after the first time: the best I could recall was 'mud blister,' further proof that I'd instantly filed it under the second of my two categories above: I didn't come out with 'mud strut' after all!
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