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maddle
English
Etymology
From mad +? -le.
Verb
maddle (third-person singular simple present maddles, present participle maddling, simple past and past participle maddled)
- (intransitive) To be or become crazy; rave; be confused in mind; be delirious; lose one's way; be dotingly fond of.
- (transitive) To craze; confuse in mind; bewilder; masker.
Related terms
- madling
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meddle
English
Etymology
From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French mesler, meller, from Vulgar Latin *miscul?, from Latin misce? (“to mix”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?d.?l/, /?m?dl?/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
- Homophones: medal, metal, mettle (in accents with flapping)
Verb
meddle (third-person singular simple present meddles, present participle meddling, simple past and past participle meddled)
- To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. [from 14thc.]
- Why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt?
- 1689, John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government
- The civil lawyers […] have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
- (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, Thessalonians 4:11
- Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated
- The Pythagoreans who, as Aristotle says, were the first among the Greeks, that meddled with Mathematics
- 1560, Geneva Bible, Thessalonians 4:11
- (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. [14th-17thc.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (intransitive, now US regional) To have sex. [from 14thc.]
Synonyms
- (to interfere in or with): dabble, stick one's nose into, stick one's oar in
- (to mix): bemingle, combine, ming; see also Thesaurus:mix
- (to have sex): do it, get it on, ming; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Derived terms
- meddle and make
- meddlement
- meddlesome
- meddler
Translations
Anagrams
- melded
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