Definitions
To confuse, mix up, or put into disorder.
Word origin
From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel.
Used in a sentence
“Young children tend to muddle their words.”
“He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.”
“c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle”
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