muddle
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Little Miss Marple: Muddle at the Vicarage will see the super-sleuth get involved when Reverend Muddle suspects there's been a theft at the vicarage.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
Muddle fruit and mint with simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022
Muddle two mint leaves and two lemon slices in a cocktail shaker.
From Fox News • Nov. 27, 2021
Muddle mint leaves and sugar in the bottom of a julep cup or rocks glass until leaves begin to break up.
From Golf Digest • May 2, 2019
Muddle, mud′l, v.t. to render muddy or foul, as water: to confuse, esp. with liquor: to waste, squander, misuse.—v.i. to potter about.—n. confusion, mess: mental confusion, bewilderment.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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