<P> - Gave example for when some one would say it . </P> <Dl> <Dd> To say say "your name is Mudd" (or less scholastically "mud") is a reference to Doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln . Though this was his duty as a physician because of the Hippocratic oath, for Americans this ultimately considered a rather traitorous action and he was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to murder the President . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> To say say "your name is Mudd" (or less scholastically "mud") is a reference to Doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln . Though this was his duty as a physician because of the Hippocratic oath, for Americans this ultimately considered a rather traitorous action and he was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to murder the President . </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Samuel Mudd is sometimes mistakenly given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", however this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, 10 years before his birth and is in fact based an obsolete sense of the word' mud' meaning' a stupid twaddling fellow' . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl>

Where does the expression your name is mud come from