单词 | to muddle up |
释义 | > as lemmasto muddle up d. transitive. to muddle up: to fail to distinguish correctly between, to identify wrongly; to mix up in the mind; (also) to bring into a disordered state. Frequently in passive. ΚΠ 1870 W. S. Gilbert Medical Man 33 Books, papers of all kinds, all muddled up together. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 27 Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up? 1934 L. Charteris Boodle xii. 261 The psychological problem..muddled itself up with a litter of brown paper and a cardboard box, a wooden plate of pecking chickens, [etc.]. 1942 J. Cary To be a Pilgrim xix. 36 All the things you silly geese have muddled up till you don't know your etc. from an etc. 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 104 Sometimes she doesn't remember our names and muddles us up. 1986 P. Grosskurth Melanie Klein i. 16 When she muddled up her Latin conjugations he would exclaim sharply, ‘You a scholar!’ 1991 Parents (BNC) Mar. A roomy, padded bag..is worth its weight in gold. Bottles and nappies don't get muddled up. < as lemmas |
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