muddleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌdəl/
• 韻: -ʌdəl

動詞

muddle (三人称単数 現在形 muddles, 現在分詞 muddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 muddled)

1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

   Young children tend to muddle their words.

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2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

   He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

3. To dabble in mud.

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4. To make turbid or muddy.
   • (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     He did ill to muddle the water.

5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bentley かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

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     often drunk, always muddled

7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hazlitt かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

派生語

名詞

muddle (複数形 muddles)

1. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

   The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.

2. (cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

派生語

• muddle-headed