muddle — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

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

   Esempi

   Young children tend to muddle their words.

   Altri esempi (1)

   I will not , to please hostile critics , muddle the argument by making it one of recondite learning , in which neither I nor my readers are strong . I try to lay before the reader reasons from which he can judge for himself

2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

   Esempi

   He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

3. To dabble in mud.

   Esempi

   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.

   Esempi

   He did ill to Muddle the Water.

5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

   Esempi

   Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

   Altri esempi (1)

   […] I vvas for five Years often drunk, alvvays muddled, they carry'd me from Tavern to Tavern, to Alehouſes and Brandy Shops, and brought me acquainted vvith ſuch ſtrange Dogs!

7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

   Esempi

   They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

Sostantivo

1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

   Esempi

   The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.

   Altri esempi (1)

   As a result, no single party or coalition immediately gained enough parliamentary seats to govern, thrusting Spain into a familiar political muddle and giving new life to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who only days ago seemed moribund.

2. A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

3. A muddy mess.

   Uso

   • arcaico

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   I must drive as quick with a thunder-rain pelting in my face, and the roads in a muddle, and the horses starting—I can’t call it shying, I have ’em too well in hand,—at every flash, just as quick as if it was a fine hard road, and fine weather.

Sostantivo

1. A servant's attendant; underservant.

   Uso

   • India
   • storico

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   We bought a few rugs and odds and ends and our sitting room looks quite European; then we have a bedroom with 2 beds and a dressing room, also a corridor for the muddles and servants.

   I have an ayah (or lady's maid), and a tailor (for the ayahs cannot work); and A—84 has a boy: also two muddles—one to sweep my room, and another to bring water.

Sostantivo

1. a confused multitude of things

   Sinonimi

   clutterjumblefuddlemare's nestweltersmother

   Termini più generali

   disorderlinessdisorder

2. informal terms for a difficult situation

   Sinonimi

   fixholejammesspicklekettle of fish

   Termini più generali

   difficultydifficultness

   Esempi

   he got into a terrible fix

   he made a muddle of his marriage

Verbo

1. make into a puddle

   Sinonimi

   puddle

   Termini più generali

   roilrile

   Esempi

   puddled mire

2. mix up or confuse

   Sinonimi

   addlepuddle

   Termini più generali

   jumbleconfusemix up

   Esempi

   He muddled the issues