Lexic.us

Definition of Muddle

1. Verb. Make into a puddle. "Puddled mire"

2. Noun. A confused multitude of things.

3. Verb. Mix up or confuse. "He muddled the issues"

4. Noun. Informal terms for a difficult situation. "He made a muddle of his marriage"

Definition of Muddle

1. v. t. To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

2. v. i. To dabble in mud.

3. n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

Definition of Muddle

1. Verb. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. ¹

2. Verb. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. ¹

3. Noun. A mixture; a confusion; a garble. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muddle

1. to mix in a disordered manner [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muddle

mudcaps mudcat mudcats mudded mudder mudders muddied muddier muddies muddiest

muddily muddiness muddinesses mudding muddle (current term) muddle-headed muddle through muddle up muddled muddled through

muddlehead muddleheaded muddleheadedly muddleheadedness muddleheads muddler muddlers muddles muddles through

Literary usage of Muddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1883)
"Here the President touches nothing which he does not muddle. In every direction is muddle, — muddle with Spain, muddle with Cuba, muddle with the Black Re- ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"A row, fuss, bother, a muddle. [Tortworth.] [S.] [SW] " What's the use of making such a CADDLE ? " CADDLE. vb. To make a bustle, fuss or bother. ..."

3. The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing (1922)
"THE ECONOMIC muddle 1. Bankruptcy and Chaos WORLD economic affairs are in a muddle. Famine has gripped Central Europe since 1918; unemployment is rife in ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"THE INDIAN CURRENCY muddle. NEARLY eight months ago the Indian mints were closed to the private coinage of silver. This step was taken somewhat in a panic, ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A kittle of fish" is also suggestive of a " muddle," the term being derived, we are told, from the apparatus of pulleys employed in drag.ning the flukes of ..."

6. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1911)
"THE muddle IN MAINE. By HOLMAN DAY. IN the matter of that singular battle of ballots recently pulled off in Maine, the question at issue being her ..."

7. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1911)
"THE muddle IN MAINE. By HOLMAN DAY. IN the matter of that singular battle of ballots recently pulled off in Maine, the question at issue being her ..."

8. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1883)
"Here the President touches nothing which he does not muddle. In every direction is muddle, — muddle with Spain, muddle with Cuba, muddle with the Black Re- ..."

9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"A row, fuss, bother, a muddle. [Tortworth.] [S.] [SW] " What's the use of making such a CADDLE ? " CADDLE. vb. To make a bustle, fuss or bother. ..."

10. The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing (1922)
"THE ECONOMIC muddle 1. Bankruptcy and Chaos WORLD economic affairs are in a muddle. Famine has gripped Central Europe since 1918; unemployment is rife in ..."

11. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"THE INDIAN CURRENCY muddle. NEARLY eight months ago the Indian mints were closed to the private coinage of silver. This step was taken somewhat in a panic, ..."

12. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A kittle of fish" is also suggestive of a " muddle," the term being derived, we are told, from the apparatus of pulleys employed in drag.ning the flukes of ..."

13. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1911)
"THE muddle IN MAINE. By HOLMAN DAY. IN the matter of that singular battle of ballots recently pulled off in Maine, the question at issue being her ..."

14. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1911)
"THE muddle IN MAINE. By HOLMAN DAY. IN the matter of that singular battle of ballots recently pulled off in Maine, the question at issue being her ..."

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