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Intermeddle vs Intermeddler - What's the difference?

intermeddle | intermeddler |

As a verb intermeddle

is (obsolete|transitive) to mix, mingle together.

As a noun intermeddler is

one who intermeddles.

intermeddle

English

Verb

(intermeddl)
  • (obsolete) To mix, mingle together.
  • *:
  • *:Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse
  • (obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up ((with)).
  • *, II.29:
  • *:Amongst our other disputation, that of Fatum , hath much entermedled it selfe.
  • To butt in, to interfere (in) or (with).
  • *Francis Bacon
  • *:The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
  • *1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Book I, Ch.2:
  • I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.

    Synonyms

    * butt in, meddle

    intermeddler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who intermeddles.
  • Derived terms

    * officious intermeddler