Meddle

Definition: Meddle

Meddle

Verb

1. Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "meddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Meddle

Activity

Tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude; poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.

Crosswords: Meddle

I learned not to meddle in other people's affairs years ago. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• MR Meddle Stories (reference)

• Never Meddle with Magic Mirrors! (reference)

• You're a Nuisance Mr Meddle (Happy Days) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Meddle (reference)

• Meddle [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He that had as good left for his improvement, as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour: if he did, it is plain he desired the benefit of another's pains, which he had no right to, and not the ground which God had given him in common with others to labour on, and whereof there was as good left, as that already possessed, and more than he knew what to do with, or his industry could reach to. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Besides, I meddle not the least with any party, but write without passion, prejudice, or illwill against any man or number of men whatsoever.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "meddle": do not meddle with my affairs ♦ do not meddle with that razor ♦ meddle in ♦ meddle with ♦ meddle with smth. ♦ To meddle and make. Additional references.

Beginning with "meddle": meddle-aged.

Ending with "meddle": Co-meddle.

Albanian

përzihem (blend, commingle, enter, horn in, interfere, interfere in, interlope, intermingle, intrude, mingle, mix, push in, put in one's oar), ndërhyj (barge into, butt in, crab, cut in, intercede, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, mediate, monkey, push in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, mix in, nose, obtrude, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), ‏تدخل في أمر لا يعنيه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

намесвам се (break in, burst in, butt, chime in, cut in, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intervene, put in, step in), меся се (interfere, intermeddle, obtrude, tamper), бъркам се (dabble, interfere, intermeddle, mess in, obtrude), бърникам (fool around with, fumble, mess about, mess around, monkey, tamper, tinker), пипам (feel, filch, handle, interfere, paw, touch, trifle), играя си (dally, fidget, fool with, mess about, mess around, monkey, play about, play around). (various references)

Chinese 

插手 (Meddled, meddling), 干預 (intervene). (various references)

Czech

míchat se do èeho. (various references)

Farsi 

فضولی کردن (Blab, Presume, Rubberneck), پراکنده کردن (Dash, Disperse, Intersperse), میانی (Centric, Inmost, Innermost, Medial, Median, Mid), میان (Among, Between, Centennial, Middling, Waist, Waistline), مخلوطکردن (Commix, Hash, Interlard, Melt, Ming, Mingle, Mix, Puddle, Roil, Temper), مرکز (Centennial, Heart, Hub, Seat, Station), مداخله کردن (Interfere, Interject, Interpose, Intervene, Putin), کمر (Crag, Girdle, Loin, Waistline), وسطی (Centric, Mean, Medial, Median, Mid), وسط (Amid, Amidst, Mediocre, Middling, Navel), وررفتن (Hangaround, Jauk, Paddle, Scamp, Toy, Twiddle), جماع کردن (Dight), امیختن (Amalgamate, Brew, Compound, Incorporate, Interlard, Knead, Mingle, Mix, Synthesize), دخالت بیجاکردن , دروسطقراردادن . (various references)

Finnish

sekaantua (be implicated, be involved, get mixed up, interfere, mix). (various references)

French

tripoter, toucher, se mêler (merge), intervenir, fouiner. (various references)

German

sich einmischen (butt in, chime in, interfere, intrude, to butt in, to interfere, wade in), einmischen (interfere, interfering, tamper). (various references)

Greek 

επεμβαίνω (interfere, intrude), ανακατεύομαι (butt in, dabble in, embroil, get involved, put one's oar in, snoop into, tamper, tamper with). (various references)

Hungarian

beleavatkozik (encroach, horn in, intermeddle, involve, mix in, put in one's oar, to chip in, to encroach, to put in, to put in one's oar), babrál (monkey with, niggle, putter, to eff about with sg, to eff around with sg, to fiddle, to muck about, to twiddle). (various references)

Indonesian

mencampuri (interfere). (various references)

Italian

mischiare (blend, mingle, mix), interferire (butt in, interfere, interpose, scramble), impicciare (be in the way, hinder, interfere), immischiarsi (interlope, intermeddle, tamper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ちゅうちゅう鳴く (a little, dabble, easily accomplished, frequently, hobbling, make a pass at, now and then, occasionally, often, restless, to chirp, to squeak, to twitter, toddling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちょっかい (dabble, make a pass at). (various references)

Pig Latin

eddlemay

Portuguese

medalheiro, intrometer-se (butt in, cut in, horn of plenty, interfere, intermeddle, intervene, it's a mess, monkey, nose, obtrude, obtrude oneself, poke about, tamper, tamper with, thwart), intervir (cut in, go beyond, intercellular, interfere, intermediary, interpose, intervene, part, put in, step in), interferir (clog, cut in, interfere, intermeddle, interposition, intervene, poke, put in, step in, tamper). (various references)

Romanian

se vârî (obtrude), se bãga (go in, obtrude), se amesteca (commingle, concern, fuse, interblend, interfere, interfuse, intermeddle, intervene, intrude into, mingle, put in one's oar). (various references)

Russian 

вмешиваться (butt in, come between, cut in, horn in, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, monkey, tamper). (various references)

Scottish

bean (handle, nf. g. mnatha; d. mnaoi; v. bhean; pl. mnathan; g.pl., touch, wife, woman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mešati se (come between). (various references)

Spanish

entrometerse (barge in, horn in, interfere, intrude, obtrude, poke about, poke around). (various references)

Swedish

lägga sig i (be in on, have a finger in the pie, interfere, interfere with, interlope, intermeddle, meddle (in), meddle in), befatta sig. (various references)

Thai

ก้าวก่าย. (various references)

Turkish

karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), burnunu sokmak (butt in, horn in, horn in on, interfere in, intermeddle, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, pry, pry into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, snoop, snoop into, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in). (various references)

Ukranian 

втручатися (break in, butt in, come between, cut in, edge in, encroach, interfere, interject, intermediate, intermit, interpose, intervene, pry). (various references)

Welsh

ymyrru (interfere), ymhel, busnesa (interfere). (various references)

miscere. (various references)

intrigare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "meddle": meddled, meddler, meddlers, meddles, meddlesome, meddlesomeness, meddlesomenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "meddle": intermeddle. (additional references)

Words containing "meddle": intermeddled, intermeddler, intermeddlers, intermeddles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Meddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deddle, Emdale, geddle, Maddala, Maddle, medale, meddel, medee, medel, Medlen, medlo, meedled, middel, Middele, Middell, middl, middled, midle, midlle, muddlec, muddlee, muddleh, muddlen, Naddle, neddle, niddle, yendle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: melded.

-1 letter: deled.

-2 letters: deed, deem, dele, deme, meed, meld.

-3 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, elm, eme, led, lee, med, mel.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, em, me.

+1 letter: delimed, medaled, meddled, meddler, meddles, modeled.

+2 letters: bemuddle, deplumed, medalled, meddlers, mildened, mildewed, modelled, moldered, remolded.

+3 letters: bedimpled, bemedaled, bemuddled, bemuddles, declaimed, delimited, dishelmed, impleaded, impledged, melodised, melodized, middlemen, mouldered, premolded, remodeled, smoldered.

+4 letters: bemedalled, cuddlesome, demandable, dementedly, demodulate, demolished, dissembled, emboldened, endodermal, imboldened, maledicted, meddlesome, medullated, midfielder, misfielded, mispleaded, remodelled, smouldered.

+5 letters: decimalized, delaminated, demobilized, demodulated, demodulates, demoralized, descrambled, intermeddle, midfielders, multiheaded.

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