noun
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a person who muddles or muddles through
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an instrument for mixing drinks thoroughly
Etymology
Origin of muddler
Example Sentences
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Drop the other caperberry at the bottom of a cocktail shaker and crush it with a muddler, so that it’s torn open and the inner seeds are well exposed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2023
If you want a cookie chunk ratio, use a meat tenderizer or a drink muddler to get fine crumbs and chunks in the mix.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
"Of course he's a bad painter," says Clark, when I suggest that some critics consider Lowry to be more muddler than stylist.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2013
Finally his prose is etched with a toothpick, not a muddler.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2012
They likes a good old muddler for that work— someone as has the knack o' addlin' the people's brains an' makin' them see a straight line as though'twere crooked.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
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