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Informal terms for a difficult situation
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muddle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble. vb. 1 To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. 2 To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. 3 To dabble in mud. 4 To make turbid or muddy. 5 To think and act in a confused, aimless way. 6 To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter , jumble , mare's nest , welter , smother ] informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix , hole , jam , mess , pickle , kettle of fish ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "destroy the clarity of" (a transferred sense); literal sense ("to bathe in mud") is from c.1600; perhaps frequentative formation from mud , or from Dutch moddelen "to make (water) muddy," from the same Proto-Germanic source. Sense of "to make muddy" ...
Usage examples of muddle.
I frowned at this, and then at his depiction, trying to convince myself that I was muddled, addled, mistaken, in the throes of a concussion, just plain crazy.
I took to mean some obscure mystical interpretation he had formulated in his own muddled, ageing brain.
I thought of those two nations which seemed to me now, from my elevated perspective, in a state of aimless economic and moral muddle.
Our feelings about bilingualism and multilingualism are a dense thicket of muddles and contradictions.
Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.
I have tried to keep a sharp vigil against the muddling results of an essentialist sexuality.
Didst think I was so lustsome for you that my brain was too muddled to understand all the implications of what you offer?
Upon which muddled speech she tucked him in with a brisk motherliness and started off down the ward.
Mother would have squelched such talk, and Daddy muddled them with long words, while Jane Anne would have looked puzzled to the point of tears.
Finances were getting muddled, too, and he realised how small his capital actually was when the needs of others made claims upon it.
Their muddled life defied disentanglement, their difficulties were inextricable.
I will stop this muddled nonsense about closing my eyes once and for all.
This muddled my plans and caused me a great deal of needless irritation.
On any other such night Theo would have let it go, but he was stone sober, having drunk nothing but goblin tea, and it was either that or think about his own still very muddled plans.
If the centre of our life is a certain fact, would not people far from the centre have a muddled version of that fact?