muddle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: muddle	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for muddle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muddle n a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother] informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" Synonym(s): fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish v make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle, puddle] mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" Synonym(s): addle, muddle, puddle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i. 1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift. 2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muddle \Mud"dle\, n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muddling}.] [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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Muddle Original name of {MDL}.