muddle

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

“The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.”

A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

“Young children tend to muddle their words.”

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

“He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.”

To dabble in mud.

To make turbid or muddy.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.