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Webster 1828 Edition

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Making foul with dirt or dregs; making half drunk; stupefying.

muddling

muddling ‎(plural muddlings)

The act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.
- 2002, Joe R. Jones, A Grammar of Christian Faith (page xiv)
  Janzen's critiques of most of my present chapters, with his soaring imagination, unencumbered passion for theologizing, and relentless wrestling, often revealed and challenged my flat-footed muddlings […]