Meddle

English

Etymology

From Template:Xno[[Category:Template:Xno derivations|Meddle]] medler, variant of Template:Xno[[Category:Template:Xno derivations|Meddle]] and Old French mesler, meller, from Late Latin misculare, from Latin miscere (“‘to mix’”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɛd.əl/, /ˈmɛdl̩/, SAMPA: /"mEd@l/, /"mEdl=/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdəl
• Homophones: medal; metal, mettle (in accents with flapping)

Verb

Infinitive to Meddle

Third person singular meddl

Simple past -

Past participle -

Present participle es

to Meddle (third-person singular simple present meddl, present participle es, simple past and past participle -)

1. (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue [...].

2. To interfere into other people’s affairs or business.
3. To tamper, or handle something ignorantly.
4. (obsolete, early 1900s) To have sex.

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Translations

interfere in affairs

Dutch: zich nl(nl) moeien nl(nl), tussenkomen nl(nl), bemoeien nl(nl)

Spanish: entrometerse es(es), inmiscuirse es(es), injerirse es(es)

tamper

Dutch: prutsen nl(nl)

Spanish: manosear es(es)

have sex

See have sex.

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Chinese: 干涉 (gan she) Italian: immischiarsi it(it)

Derived terms

• meddlement
• meddlesome

Anagrams

• ddeelm,
• melded

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