muddle

Meaning

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.

Concepts

muddle

mess

confusion

jumble

confuse

tangle

disorder

bewilder

clutter

chaos

muss

mix-up

obfuscate

puddle

fuddle

mess up

mix up

pother

shemozzle

entanglement

shambles

disarrange

disarray

complicate

mix

addle

fix

hole

jam

kettle of fish

pickle

mare’s nest

smother

welter

embroilment

mull

snafu

distract

perplex

embarrass

roil

disconcert

scrape

disarrangement

kerfuffle

razzmatazz

topsyturvydom

botch

ruin

spoil

wreck

make a mess of

affray

promiscuity

be distracted

despondency

dullness

frustration

turbidness

disturb

perturb

ruffle

falter

flounder

waver

mixture

render confused

muddy

obfuscation

addlement

befuddle

bewilderment

boss

box-up

bungle

hash

maze

moil

muck-up

pell-mell

ravel

snarl

snarl-up

make unstable

muddle up

disorganise

bedim

steam up

becloud

confound

derange

discompose

stir up

haste

dislocation

disorderliness

abash

beat

bemuse

churn

dazzle

discombobulate

discomfit

disorient

excite

mystify

obscure

riddle

shake

shake up

stimulate

stir

stump

throw

unsettle

dog’s breakfast

dog’s dinner

gallimaufry

hassle

mess-up

cockup

soil

lack of order

aggro

unrest

whirl

row

Hyphenated as

mud‧dle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmʌdl̩/

Etymology

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.