different between muddle vs bemud
muddle
English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). Compare German Kuddelmuddel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?d?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
Verb
muddle (third-person singular simple present muddles, present participle muddling, simple past and past participle muddled)
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of F. W. Newman to this entry?)
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- To dabble in mud.
- c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage
- Young ducklings foster'd by a hen;
But, when let out, they run and muddle
- Young ducklings foster'd by a hen;
- c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism
- 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.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- often drunk, always muddled
- 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- 1821, William Hazlitt, On the Want of Money
- They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
- 1821, William Hazlitt, On the Want of Money
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
muddle (plural muddles)
- A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
- (cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
Translations
Derived terms
- muddle-headed
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bemud
English
Etymology
From be- +? mud.
Verb
bemud (third-person singular simple present bemuds, present participle bemudding, simple past and past participle bemudded)
- (transitive) To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
- (transitive, figuratively) To confuse; muddle.
Anagrams
- BUMED
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