fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation; “he got into a terrible fix”; “he made a muddle of his marriage”
clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother
(noun) a confused multitude of things
addle, muddle, puddle
(verb) mix up or confuse; “He muddled the issues”
muddle, puddle
(verb) make into a puddle; “puddled mire”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
muddle (third-person singular simple present muddles, present participle muddling, simple past and past participle muddled)
To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
To dabble in mud.
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.
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
muddle (plural muddles)
A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
(cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
Source: Wiktionary
Mud"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Muddling.] Etym: [From Mud.]
1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.] He did ill to muddle the water. L'Estrange.
2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.
3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.] They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. Hazlitt.
4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.
Mud"dle, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] Swift.
2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
Mud"dle, n.
Definition: A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
