to behave, proceed, or think in a confused or aimless fashion or with an air of improvisation: Some people just muddle along, waiting for their big break.
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Muddlementis always a great word to know.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
the state or condition of being muddled, especially a confused mental state.
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a confused, disordered, or embarrassing condition; mess.
Verb phrase
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muddle through, to achieve a certain degree of success but without much skill, polish, experience, or direction: None of us knew much about staging a variety show, so we just had to muddle through.
Origin: 1540–50; mud + -le; cognate with Middle Dutch moddelen to muddy
Related forms
mud·dled·ness, mud·dle·ment, noun
mud·dling·ly, adverb
pre·mud·dle, noun, verb (used with object), pre·mud·dled, pre·mud·dling.