muddles

Noun (1)

muddle (plural 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.
3. (archaic) A muddy mess.
   • I must drive as quick with a thunder-rain pelting in my face, and the roads in a muddle, and the horses starting—I can’t call it shying, I have ’em too well in hand,—at every flash, just as quick as if it was a fine hard road, and fine weather.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Noun (2)

muddle (plural muddles)

1. (India, historical) A servant's attendant; underservant.
   • 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.1985, Lizzie Hessel, Ann Brown, Anne Rose, Lizzie: A Victorian Lady's Amazon Adventure, page 132

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