A word that hasn’t come up yet on OffQc…
la bouette
mud
Your dictionary will tell you that mud is la boue, but you’ll also hear la bouette in Québec.
If someone had muddy boots on, you could describe them as bottes pleines de bouette.
You can say to play in the mud as jouer dans la bouette.
Remember, the words dans la can contract to dans’ in informal language, so jouer dans la bouette can sound like jouer dans’ bouette.
For those interested, there is a “sentier de la bouette” a few hours out of Montréal: http://oreilletendue.com/2011/08/22/villegiature-linguistique/
Love this site. My first language was Quebec French, and the word we used for mud was pronounced something like vows or vose. Have you heard of that?
The word you’re thinking of is la vase. It’s pronounced [vɑz]. The [ɑ] sound is a little like the English “aw,” or even “ow”.