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Definition of Meddle
1. Verb. Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly. "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
Generic synonyms: Interfere, Interpose, Intervene, Step In
Derivative terms: Meddler, Meddling, Tampering
Definition of Meddle
1. v. i. To mix; to mingle.
2. v. t. To mix; to mingle.
Definition of Meddle
1. Verb. (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. (defdate 14th-17th c.) ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive now US regional) To have sex. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
3. Verb. To interfere (term in) or (term with); to concern oneself with unduly. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meddle
1. to interest oneself in what is not one's concern [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meddle
Literary usage of Meddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"meddle. I have secured the only newspaper in the village — my character, ...
I'll toll you what, Mr. meddle; if I had my will, I would soon put a check on ..."
2. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1913)
"Some time thereafter, he gat orders to apprehend Mr. Semple; he intreated to
excuse him, for Mr. Semple was the minister and man he would not meddle with; ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... that he does not meddle, in any fort, with the temporality of his dominions,
... any of his Lamas to meddle with it ; but puts all ..."
4. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"James forbids the House to " meddle with mysteries of State." Remonstrance of
the Commons. The King's reply. on some secret charge, and kept in confinement ..."
5. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"This I accidentally gleaned up, and resolve to give it you, though contrary to
my natural inclination, which affects not to meddle with state affaires. ..."
6. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1853)
"My son, fear thou the Lord, and the King; and meddle not with them that are given
to change. For their destruction shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ..."
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