Meddle

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English

Verb

Meddle (third-person singular simple present meddles, present participle meddling, simple past and past participle meddled)

  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. (intransitive, now US regional) To have sex.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:
      And in the same tyme that they medled togydirs, Abell was begotyn.
  3. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.

Thesaurus

Paul-Pry, advise, advocate, arrest, bottle up, brief, busybody, butt in, check, coach, confer, consult with, counsel, countercheck, curb, dam up, damp, dampen, delay, detain, direct, fool, fool with, guide, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede, inhibit, instruct, intercept, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, keep back, keep in check, kibitz, make, meddle with, mess around, mess with, monkey with, nose, obtrude, oppose, peek, peep, prescribe, propose, pry, recommend, repress, resist, restrain, retard, scotch, set back, slacken, snoop, snub, spy, submit, suggest, suppress, tamper, tamper with, trespass

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman medler, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French mesler, meller, from Late Latin misculare, from Latin miscere (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

Translations

interfere in affairs
have sex
See have sex.
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