Reverse Dictionary: MUDDLE

ADJECTIVES
1386 ► ARSEWARD contrary to what is usual, expected, or logical; back-to-front, muddled, perverse
1612 ► ADDLE muddled, confused
1628 ► ARSEY-VERSEY → ARSIE-VARSIE → ARSEY-VARSEY → ARSY-VARSY → ARSY-VERSY back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1630 ► ADDLE-PATED confused, muddled, stupid, doltish, thick-headed
1670 ► ADDLE-HEADED confused, muddled, stupid
1670 ► AT SIXES AND SEVENS confused, bewildered; muddled; also denotes disorganization or disorder
1719 ► CAPERNOITED slightly affected in the head by drinking, tipsy; muddle-headed, wrong-headed → Sc.
1721 ► OFF AT THE NAIL muddled, confused, beyond the bounds of reason → Sc.
1721 ► RAVELLED tangled, confused, muddled, in difficulties → Sc.
1732 ► ADDLED confused, muddled
1745 ► JAMBLED bewildered, confused, muddled, jumbled, befuddled; awry → Amer. dial.
M18. ► MUDDLE-HEADED bewildered; confused; muddled
1756 ► MUCKIBUS intoxicated, slightly drunk, tipsy, fuddled; confused or muddled with drink → sl. obs.
1769 ► CAPERNOITY crabbed, irritable, peevish; slightly affected in the head by drinking, muddle-headed, wrong-headed → Sc.
1786 ► RAMFEEZLED confused, muddled, stupefied → Sc.
1786 ► RAMFOOZLED confused, muddled, stupefied; spent, exhausted, wearied → Sc.
1787 ► DUNT stupefied, numbed, dazed; stupid, foolish, dizzy, muddle-headed → Eng. dial.
1791 ► RAMGEED → RAMJEED tipsy, confused, muddled → Sc.
1818 ► TAIVERT → TAVERT stupid, foolish, muddle-headed, slow-witted, half-witted → Sc.
1820 ► MAFFLED confused, muddled → Eng. dial.
1825 ► MANGED confused, muddled, crazed → Sc.
1827 ► TAP-AND-TEERIE chaotic, muddled, disorderly → Sc.
1827 ► TAPSALTEERIE chaotic, muddled, disorderly → Sc.
1834 ► OBFUSTICATED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl.
1836 ► HAIZIE muddled; crazy, weak in understanding → Sc.
1866 ► ADDLE-BRAINED confused, muddled, stupid
1866 ► RAVELLED confused in mind, muddled; rambling, incoherent, delirious → Sc.
1872 ► BOTHER-HEADED stupid, thick-headed, muddled
1880 ► EEDLE-DEEDLE → EEDLE-DODDLE easygoing, lacking initiative, negligent, muddle-headed
1883 ► FRAZZLED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl.
1891 ► OFF ONE’S BASE insane, crazy, confused, muddled, mistaken → US sl.
1891 ► WOOL-GATHERED muddled, bewildered, distracted → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
L19.. ► UP THE POLE muddled, confused, wrong, in error, mistaken → sl.
1910 ► GOOFY bewildered; confused; muddled → sl.
1923 ► ARSE ABOUT FACE contrary to what is usually, expected or logical; confused, muddled perverse → UK sl.
1932 ► ASSED UP bewildered; muddled → Amer. dial.
1934 ► ASS-BACKWARDS back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1940 ► BACK-ASSWARD(S) confused, muddled, backwards → US sl.
1940 ► FLAK HAPPY slap-happy; slightly muddled mentally → World War II Amer. sl.
1942 ► ADDLED AS AN EGG bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► ADRIFT bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► ALL BALLED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► ALL MESSED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► AT SIX AND SEVEN bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BALLED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BATTY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BLOOEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BLUEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► BUZZY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CLOUDY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► COBWEBBED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CORKSCREWY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DIZZY-DOPEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DOPEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► DOTTY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FIDDLED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FLOOEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FLUFFY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FOGGED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FOGGY obscure or confused; bewildered; perplexed; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FOGGY IN THE UPPER STORY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FUDDLED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FUDDLE-HEADED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FUZZLED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FUZZY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► FUZZY-HEADED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GEED → GEED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GEEZED → GEEZED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GROGGY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN A FLAT SPIN bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN A FLAT SPIN IN A FOG bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN A FOG bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN A FUDDLE bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN A GROUND LOOP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN THE ETHER bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN THE FOG bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► IN THE WOODS bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► JIGGERED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► JINGLE-BRAINED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► JINGLED bewildered; confused; muddled; disconcerted → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LIKE A CHICKEN WITH ITS HEAD CUT OFF bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► LOOPED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► MESSED UP bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► MUDDY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► MUZZY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► PIED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► RATTLE-BEANED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRAMBLEBRAINED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCRAMBLED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SCREWY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SNOWED-IN bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► TWISTED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► UNDER THE ETHER bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WALKING ON ONE’S HEELS bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WALKING ON ROUND HEELS bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WHOOZY → WOOZEY → WOOZY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WIRES CROSSED bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► WONKEY bewildered; confused; muddled → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1950 ► MIZZLING confused, muddled → Amer. dial.
1952 ► ASS-BACKWARD back-to-front, muddled perverse → sl.
1960 ► DUNTY stupid, muddle-headed → Eng. dial.
1984 ► MIZZLED confused, muddled → Amer. dial.
1996 ► UP THE PUTT confused, incorrect; muddled, wrong → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS
16C.. ► PUDDLE a muddle, a mess → colloq. & Eng. dial.
1598 ► KENNEL WITS muddy brains, confusion, muddle-headedness → obs.
1598 ► MASH a confused mixture; also, a muddle
1711 ► FUZZ a fuddled or muddled state → obs.
1790 ► MASHMENT a muddle → Eng. dial.
1790 ► MISH-MASH a state of confusion; a muddle → Sc. & Eng. dial.  
1797 ► HABBLE a difficulty, a state of muddle or perplexity; a quandary; a tangle → Sc.
19C.. ► MUSS a state of disorder; a muddle → US & Can. colloq.
1818 ► FANKLE a tangle, a muddle; an entanglement; a predicament → Sc.
1824 ► HAISTER a confusion, a muddle → Sc. obs.
1824 ► HASTRIE a confusion, a muddle → Sc. obs.
1835 ► ADDLE-HEADEDNESS confusion, muddle-headedness
1837 ► TAGRAGGERY a hotchpotch; a muddle or mix-up; any heterogeneous mass of bits and pieces; a confusion of loose ends
1838 ► PANSHINE a flurry, a to-do, a state of excitement, a panic or muddle → Sc.
1838 ► PANSHIT a flurry, a to-do, a state of excitement, a panic or muddle → Sc.
1843 ► ADDLING muddling of the wits
1859 ► ADDLEMENT confusion, muddle-headedness
1866 ► HASHY a mess, a muddle, confusion; noise, riot → Sc.
1866 ► HASSIE a mess, a muddle, confusion; noise, riot → Sc.
1867 ► MORASS a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp. one that impedes progress 
1869 ► MOMMUX a muddle; a botch → Amer. sl.
1875 ► MAMMOCK → MOMMOCK → MUMMOCK an untidy heap or mess; a litter; a confused, shapeless mass; a dirty mixture; confusion, muddle → Eng. dial.
1876 ► MAUNGE a confused mess, a mess, a muddle; a blunder, a dilemma, trouble → Eng. dial.
1880 ► MANG a mixture, a muddle, a confusion → Sc.
1887 ► JACKPOT a predicament; a muddle; a dilemma; trouble; an arrest → Amer. sl.
1889 ► BALLS a botch, a muddle → sl.
1889 ► MESSMENT a mess; a confused, disorderly, or dirty condition; a muddle, a confusion; anything unpalatable → Eng. dial.
1891 ► RAVEL a muddle, tangle, confusion → Sc.
1892 ► FAKEMENT a muddle, confusion → Eng. dial.
1894 ► JABBLE confusion, agitation, esp. of speech; an incoherent muddle → Sc.
1895 ► HIBBLEDY-HOBBLEDY a confused mass, a muddle → Eng. dial.
1895 ► MIRD an accumulation; a close-packed and confused crowd; a muddle → Sc.  
1898 ► BALK a muddle; a stoppage → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
L19.. ► MIX a muddle, a mess → sl.
L19.. ► MUCK-UP a complete failure; confusion or muddle; a botch → colloq.
20C.. ► FRIGG-UP → FRIG-UP a mess, a muddle → Aust. & US euphemism for ‘fuck-up’
20C.. ► GUDDLE a muddled affair; a mix-up; confusion → colloq.
1905 ► MANCH a confused mass; a mess; a muddle; fig. a blunder, a dilemma → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► VAKE a piece of business; a muddle → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 ► KEEGER → KIGGER a mess; an untidy mixture; a muddle → Sc.
1911 ► BEES a state of confusion; muddle; light-headedness; fuddle → Sc. (Bk.)
1914 ► LAGGERY a mess; a state of muddle or chaos → Sc.
1925 ► TAIGLE a tangle, a muddle; tangled fishing line → Sc.
1929 ► BALLS-UP a real mix-up; a mess, muddle; a chaotic state of affairs; a fiasco, a disaster → sl.
1929 ► PARGIS a dirty mess, a muddle, a filthy condition → Sc.
1933 ► PIG’S BREAKFAST something unattractive or unappetizing; a mess; a muddle → colloq.
M20. ► F.U. a ‘foul-up’ or ‘fuck-up’; a grave muddle
1952 ► FAUCHLE a muddle, a state of confusion → Sc.
1967 ► QUIGGER a hotchpotch; a mess, as of badly-cooked food; a muddle or botch in general → Sc.

NOUNS, PERSON
1655 ► HASH a stupid person; a person who ‘makes a hash’ of his words, etc., one who is careless or muddled in speech or action → Sc.
1697 ► BLUNDERHEAD a blundering, confused, muddle-headed fellow
M19. ► TODDY-STICK a muddler, one who ‘messes things around’ → sl.
1905 ► MESSER a bungler; a muddler → Brit. colloq. 
1905 ► WARP-HEAD a silly muddle-headed person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1929 ► HAGGLE a person who has no method and is always in a muddle → Sc.

VERBS
1572 ► BARBULYE to confuse, to muddle, to disorder → Sc. arch.
1599 ► BEMUD to confuse, to muddle
1599 ► HAGGLE to cut unevenly; to hack or mangle; to bungle, to make a muddle of anything
1621 ► FUZZLE o intoxicate, to make drunk; to confuse, to muddle → obs.
1712 ► ADDLE to muddle; to confuse; to spoil, to make abortive
1735 ► BEMUSE to make utterly confused or muddled, as with intoxicating liquor; to put into a stupid stare, to stupefy
1781 ► MAFFLE to blunder, to make mistakes, to muddle, to confuse, to bewilder → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1786 ► RAMFEEZLE → RAMFOOZLE to disarrange, to muddle → Sc.
1791 ► RAVEL to get into a confusion or tangle; to entangle, to disorder, to muddle → Sc.
1862 ► BEMUDDLE to confuse or muddle completely
1862 ► MULL to spoil, to muddle → Brit. colloq., orig. & chiefly athletics usage
1891 ► BUGGER UP to ruin, to spoil; to damage; to make a mess of; to muddle, to mishandle
1898 ► TAIGLE to tangle, to confuse, to entangle, to muddle → Sc.
20C.. ► MAKE A BOX OF to muddle → Aust. sl.
1905 ► MADDLE to perplex; to muddle → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MAKE MASHELTON OF ANYTHING to do anything imperfectly, to make a muddle of, to bungle → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1938 ► MIZZLE to confuse, to muddle → Amer. dial.
1939 ► TEAR UP to mess up, to make untidy or disorderly, to muddle up, to disarrange → Amer. dial.
1948 ► TAZZLE → TAZZLE UP to muddle, to mess up, to confuse; to make untidy or disorderly  → Amer. dial.
M20. ► F.U. to ‘foul-up’ or ‘fuck-up’
1960 ► QUIGGER to work in something messy or in an ineffectual, messy or muddling way → Sc.