Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - muddle
Muddle
muddle
v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by up, together) bring into disorder. 2 tr. bewilder, confuse. 3 tr. mismanage (an affair). 4 tr. US crush and mix (the ingredients for a drink). 5 intr. (often foll. by with) busy oneself in a confused and ineffective way. --n. 1 disorder. 2 a muddled condition. Phrases and idioms make a muddle of 1 bring into disorder. 2 bungle. muddle along (or on) progress in a haphazard way. muddle-headed stupid, confused. muddle-headedness stupidity; a confused state. muddle through succeed by perseverance rather than skill or efficiency. muddle up confuse (two or more things). Derivatives muddler n. muddlingly adv. Etymology: perh. f. MDu. moddelen, frequent. of modden dabble in mud (as MUD)
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I. verb (~d; muddling) Etymology: probably from obsolete Dutch moddelen, from Middle Dutch, from modde mud; akin to Middle Low German mudde Date: 1676 transitive verb to make turbid or muddy, to befog or stupefy especially with liquor, to mix confusedly, to make a mess of ; bungle, intransitive verb to think or act in a confused aimless way, ~r noun II. noun Date: circa 1818 a state of especially mental confusion, a confused mess, muddly adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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