muddle

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verb

V_es/s

muddles

V_ing/Gerund

muddling

V_ed/pp

muddled

1.
To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
Young children tend to muddle their words.
2.
To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
3.
To dabble in mud.
c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle
4.
To make turbid or muddy.
5.
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
6.
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
7.
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

muddles

1.
A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.
2.
(cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
3.
(archaic)A muddy mess.
4.
(India, historical)A servant's attendant; underservant.

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From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (wallowing)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (to make muddy), from modde, mod (mud) (Modern modder). mud. Compare Kuddelmuddel.