单词 | muddledom |
释义 | muddledomn. The condition of muddle; prevalence of muddle. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] brabbling1530 confusion1530 ruffle1533 pell-mellc1586 confusedness1587 huddle1606 Babel confusion1653 promiscuity1663 hugger-mugger1674 promiscuousness1676 clutter1692 jumblement1706 muddle1808 embranglement1826 mare's nest1837 muddlement1857 muddledom1891 muddliness1891 mêlée1895 mix-up1898 huddledom1923 buggeration1962 mixed-upness1967 1891 S. Baring-Gould In Troubadour-land vi. 79 I then learned..that equations might be complicated to the highest limits of muddledom. 1904 Tablet 15 Oct. 632/2 The helpless victim of State muddledom. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 June 423/3 Then she shows us..a mind in bitter and passionate revolt against the muddledom and self-interest that produce war. 1985 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 50 The catalyst who clears the cobwebs of the mind and eliminates muddledom. 2000 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 30 Sept. We shall never know to what extent [Henry] Green was in a state of higher muddledom, alcoholic or otherwise, when he wrote about such muddle so muddlingly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1891 |
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