"muddle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmʌdl̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-muddle.ogg [General-American] Forms: muddles [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌdəl Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). Compare German Kuddelmuddel. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|modelen}} Middle English modelen, {{m|enm|modeland|t=wallowing}} modeland (“wallowing”), {{der|en|dum|moddelen|t=to make muddy}} Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), {{m|dum|modde}} modde, {{m|dum|mod||mud}} mod (“mud”), {{cog|nl|modder}} Dutch modder, {{cog|de|Kuddelmuddel}} German Kuddelmuddel Head templates: {{en-noun}} muddle (plural muddles)
  1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble. Translations (a mixture; a confusion; a garble): ارتباك (Arabic), تخبط (Arabic), бъркотия (bǎrkotija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), zmatek [masculine] (Czech), chaos [masculine] (Czech), nepořádek [masculine] (Czech), změť [feminine] (Czech), wirwar [masculine] (Dutch), warboel [masculine] (Dutch), sotku (Finnish), sekasotku (Finnish), désordre [masculine] (French), confusion [feminine] (French), pagaille [feminine] (French), Wirrwarr [masculine] (German), zagyvaság (Hungarian), zűrzavar (Hungarian), rendetlenség (Hungarian), felfordulás (Hungarian), pasticcio [masculine] (Italian), guazzabuglio [masculine] (Italian), casino [masculine] (Italian), pastrocchio [masculine] (Italian), pateracchio [masculine] (Italian), intruglio [masculine] (Italian), borrolís (Occitan), borrolh (Occitan), borrolament (Occitan), desòrdre (Occitan), confusion (Occitan), pastis (Occitan), путаница (putanica) [feminine] (Russian), desorden [masculine] (Spanish), röra (Swedish), oreda (Swedish), virrvarr (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-noun-4SKvqNSQ Disambiguation of 'a mixture; a confusion; a garble': 87 13
  2. (cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-noun-YmHc~q8R
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: muddle-headed Related terms: mudpuddle
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmʌdl̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-muddle.ogg [General-American] Forms: muddles [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌdəl Head templates: {{en-noun}} muddle (plural muddles)
  1. (India, historical) A servant's attendant; underservant. Tags: India, historical
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-noun-l5snnvtF Categories (other): Indian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmʌdl̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmʌd(ə)l/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-muddle.ogg [General-American] Forms: muddles [present, singular, third-person], muddling [participle, present], muddled [participle, past], muddled [past]
Rhymes: -ʌdəl Etymology: From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). Compare German Kuddelmuddel. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|modelen}} Middle English modelen, {{m|enm|modeland|t=wallowing}} modeland (“wallowing”), {{der|en|dum|moddelen|t=to make muddy}} Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), {{m|dum|modde}} modde, {{m|dum|mod||mud}} mod (“mud”), {{cog|nl|modder}} Dutch modder, {{cog|de|Kuddelmuddel}} German Kuddelmuddel Head templates: {{en-verb}} muddle (third-person singular simple present muddles, present participle muddling, simple past and past participle muddled)
  1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. Translations (mix together, to mix up; to confuse): обърквам (obǎrkvam) (Bulgarian), pomíchat [perfective] (Czech), plést [imperfective] (Czech), poplést [perfective] (Czech), plést si [imperfective] (Czech), poplést si [perfective] (Czech), pomotat [perfective] (Czech), verwarren (Dutch), door mekaar mengen (Dutch), sotkea (Finnish), sekoittaa (Finnish), confondre (French), mélanger (French), embrouiller (French), rendre confus (French), atrapallar (Galician), verwirren (German), συγχέω (synchéo) (Greek), θολώνω (tholóno) (Greek), összekever (Hungarian), összezagyvál (Hungarian), összekuszál (Hungarian), konfuzeskar (Ido), pastrocchiare (Italian), pasticciare (Italian), ingarbugliare (Italian), imbrogliare (Italian), impasticciare (Italian), aggrovigliare (Italian), arruffare (Italian), mesclar (Occitan), borramesclar (Occitan), enrambolhar (Occitan), baralhar (Portuguese), încurca (Romanian), încâlci (Romanian), a face confuz (Romanian), перепу́тать (perepútatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), спу́тать (spútatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), cuir tro-chèile (Scottish Gaelic), mezclar (Spanish), confundir (Spanish), embrollar (Spanish), zarabutear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-GTKuRP7g Disambiguation of 'mix together, to mix up; to confuse': 91 1 1 1 3 1 1
  2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. Translations (mash for a cocktail): миксирам (miksiram) (Bulgarian), machucar (Galician), machacar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-jp8dhGE7 Disambiguation of 'mash for a cocktail': 7 74 2 3 3 4 7
  3. To dabble in mud.
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-UIq1OcTw
  4. To make turbid or muddy. Translations (to make turbid or muddy): kalit [imperfective] (Czech), zkalit [perfective] (Czech), zakalit [perfective] (Czech), összezavar (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-8WHdHsz6 Disambiguation of 'to make turbid or muddy': 2 1 1 90 3 1 1
  5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-scdWcZ~0
  6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Translations (to cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially): kótyagossá tesz (Hungarian), fejébe száll (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-DQyvYwv~ Disambiguation of 'to cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially': 1 1 0 1 1 92 3
  7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. Categories (topical): Drinking Translations (to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated): elherdál (Hungarian), elpazarol (Hungarian), elfecsérel (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-muddle-en-verb-ceL4lltt Disambiguation of Drinking: 5 8 20 8 13 4 6 5 7 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 16 19 3 3 2 3 8 17 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 14 17 4 9 2 4 7 15 23 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 8 17 7 7 4 7 9 16 25 Disambiguation of 'to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated': 2 2 0 1 1 4 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: muddle along, muddled [adjective], muddlement, muddler, muddlesome, muddle through, muddle up
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Galician",
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          "word": "atrapallar"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "konfuzeskar"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "pastrocchiare"
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          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "pasticciare"
        },
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          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "ingarbugliare"
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          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "arruffare"
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          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "mesclar"
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          "lang": "Occitan",
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "baralhar"
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          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "încurca"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "încâlci"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "a face confuz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "perepútatʹ",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
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          "word": "перепу́тать"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "spútatʹ",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
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          "word": "спу́тать"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "cuir tro-chèile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "mezclar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "confundir"
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          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "embrollar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 1 1 3 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
          "word": "zarabutear"
        }
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          "text": "He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To mash slightly for use in a cocktail."
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          "roman": "miksiram",
          "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
          "word": "миксирам"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
          "word": "machucar"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
          "word": "machacar"
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        {
          "text": "c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage\nYoung ducklings foster'd by a hen;\nBut, when let out, they run and muddle"
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        "To dabble in mud."
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    },
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "Young children tend to muddle their words.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, Francis William Newman, A History of the Hebrew Monarchy",
          "text": "I will not , to please hostile critics , muddle the argument by making it one of recondite learning , in which neither I nor my readers are strong . I try to lay before the reader reasons from which he can judge for himself",
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          "mix"
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          "mix up"
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        {
          "text": "He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.",
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        }
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        "To mash slightly for use in a cocktail."
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          "mash"
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          "cocktail",
          "cocktail"
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        {
          "text": "c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage\nYoung ducklings foster'd by a hen;\nBut, when let out, they run and muddle"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dabble in mud."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make turbid or muddy."
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To think and act in a confused, aimless way."
      ]
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        "To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially."
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          "ref": "1821, William Hazlitt, On the Want of Money",
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        }
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        "To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated."
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/ˈmʌd(ə)l/",
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        "General-American"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obǎrkvam",
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      "word": "обърквам"
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      "lang": "Czech",
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      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pomíchat"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "plést"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "poplést"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "plést si"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "poplést si"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pomotat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "verwarren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "door mekaar mengen"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "sotkea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "sekoittaa"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "confondre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "mélanger"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "embrouiller"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "rendre confus"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "atrapallar"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "verwirren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "synchéo",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "συγχέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "θολώνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "összekever"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "összezagyvál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "összekuszál"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "konfuzeskar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "pastrocchiare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "pasticciare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "ingarbugliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "imbrogliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "impasticciare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "aggrovigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "arruffare"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "mesclar"
    },
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "borramesclar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "enrambolhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "baralhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "încurca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "încâlci"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "a face confuz"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "перепу́тать"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спу́тать"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "cuir tro-chèile"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "mezclar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "confundir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "embrollar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mix together, to mix up; to confuse",
      "word": "zarabutear"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "miksiram",
      "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
      "word": "миксирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
      "word": "machucar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mash for a cocktail",
      "word": "machacar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to make turbid or muddy",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "kalit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to make turbid or muddy",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zkalit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to make turbid or muddy",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zakalit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make turbid or muddy",
      "word": "összezavar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially",
      "word": "kótyagossá tesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially",
      "word": "fejébe száll"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated",
      "word": "elherdál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated",
      "word": "elpazarol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated",
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    }
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}

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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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          "text": "The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.",
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          "ref": "2023 July 24, Jason Horowitz, “What the Collapse of Spain’s Far Right Means Going Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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      "rhymes": "-ʌdəl"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "ارتباك"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "تخبط"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "bǎrkotija",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бъркотия"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zmatek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chaos"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nepořádek"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "změť"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "warboel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "sotku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "sekasotku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "désordre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "confusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pagaille"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Wirrwarr"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "zagyvaság"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "zűrzavar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "rendetlenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "felfordulás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pasticcio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guazzabuglio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "casino"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pastrocchio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pateracchio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "intruglio"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "borrolís"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "borrolh"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "borrolament"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "desòrdre"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "confusion"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "pastis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "putanica",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "путаница"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desorden"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "röra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "oreda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a mixture; a confusion; a garble",
      "word": "virrvarr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "muddle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌdəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌdəl/2 syllables",
    "en:Drinking"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muddles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muddle (plural muddles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "mud‧dle"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lizzie Hessel, Ann Brown, Anne Rose, Lizzie: A Victorian Lady's Amazon Adventure, page 132",
          "text": "We bought a few rugs and odds and ends and our sitting room looks quite European; then we have a bedroom with 2 beds and a dressing room, also a corridor for the muddles and servants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Carl Thompson, Katrina O'Loughlin, Éadaoin Agnew, Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854, page 201",
          "text": "I have an ayah (or lady's maid), and a tailor (for the ayahs cannot work); and A—84 has a boy: also two muddles—one to sweep my room, and another to bring water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A servant's attendant; underservant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "attendant",
          "attendant"
        ],
        [
          "underservant",
          "underservant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, historical) A servant's attendant; underservant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌdl̩/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌd(ə)l/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌdəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-muddle.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/En-us-muddle.ogg/En-us-muddle.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-us-muddle.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "muddle"
}

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