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Stump vs Muddle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between stump and muddle

is that stump is the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb while muddle is a mixture; a confusion; a garble.

As verbs the difference between stump and muddle

is that stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle while muddle is to mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

stump

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia stump)
  • The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  • (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  • (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump !'
  • (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
  • (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
  • A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  • (slang, humorous) A leg.
    • to stir one's stumps
  • A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
  • A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

    • Derived terms

    * stumps * pull up stumps * on the stump * take the stump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to stop, confuse, or puzzle
  • to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
    • ''This last question has me stumped .
  • to campaign
    • He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  • (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes
  • (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
  • (cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket)
  • * Tennyson
    • A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
  • to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge

    • Related terms

    * stumped

    See also

    * stump up

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    muddle

    English

    Verb

    (muddl)
  • To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
    • Young children tend to muddle their words.
  • To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
    • He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
  • To dabble in mud.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • To make turbid or muddy.
  • * L'Estrange
    • He did ill to muddle the water.
  • To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
  • To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
  • * Bentley
    • 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.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • often drunk, always muddled
  • To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
  • * Hazlitt
    • 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 up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
    • The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.

    Derived terms

    * muddle-headed