muddle

Meanings

Verb

• 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.

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle Dutch moddelen ("to make muddy"), from modde, mod (Modern Dutch modder). Compare German Kuddelmuddel.