muddle

Signification

Verb

1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
3. To dabble in mud.
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.

Noun

1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
2. A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

Noun

A servant's attendant; underservant.

Coupé comme

mud‧dle

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmʌdl̩/

Étymologie

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