Muddle vs Mottle - What's the difference?
muddle | mottle |
To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
To dabble in mud.
To make turbid or muddy.
* L'Estrange
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
* Bentley
* Arbuthnot
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
* Hazlitt
A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
a distinguishing blotch of color
mottled coloration or pattern
As verbs the difference between muddle and mottle
is that muddle is to mix together, to mix up; to confuse while mottle is to mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.As nouns the difference between muddle and mottle
is that muddle is a mixture; a confusion; a garble while mottle is a distinguishing blotch of color.muddle
English
Verb
(muddl)- Young children tend to muddle their words.
- He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
- (Jonathan Swift)
- He did ill to muddle the water.
- 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.
- often drunk, always muddled
- They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
Derived terms
* muddler (agent noun) * muddle along * muddle through * muddle upNoun
(en noun)- The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.
Derived terms
* muddle-headedmottle
English
Verb
(mottl)Noun
(wikipedia mottle) (mottles)- The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.