Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small pestlelike baton that is used to prepare mixed drinks.
- noun One who muddles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A churning-stick for muddling chocolate or for mixing toddies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, muddles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or thing that
muddles . - noun A
tool used inmuddling , used tomash andmix .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shaped like a large wooden pestle, the muddler is a must for summer drinks, like the Mojito or Mint Julep, which require muddling to bring out the mint's flavor.
Stories from The Sun 2008
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Hard to beat a little muddler minnows and woolly buggers.
i will be fly fishing fishing for trout on a small stream in northern ny this weekend. 2009
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I'd be willing to bet the muddler would do well on bass
Does anybody else on here fly fish for crappie? If so what flies do you use? 2010
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I usually go with muddler minnows or clouser minnow | Field & Stream
Does anybody else on here fly fish for crappie? If so what flies do you use? 2010
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I usually go with muddler minnows or clouser minnow
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I usually go with muddler minnows or clouser minnow
AM 1500 2009
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I like you very well, though you are slow and a muddler; but I want you to understand, once and for all, that I did not come to the Solomons to get married.
Chapter 20 2010
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How to make them: Get what's known as a Lewis bag, a canvas sack that you pack with ice and then hit with an accompanying wooden mallet or muddler $20 for bag, muddler and shaker, after5catalog.com .
With Ice, Size Matters Kimberly Chou 2011
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Hard to beat a little muddler minnows and woolly buggers.
i will be fly fishing fishing for trout on a small stream in northern ny this weekend. 2009
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"The human heart of the matter": In The Guardian, fiction and nonfiction writer (and innovative muddler of the two) Geoff Dyer argues that if you're waiting for the great Iraq/Afghanistan novels to appear (or looking to tense-but-shallow movies like The Hurt Locker), you're missing the boat: the great new war books are already filling the bookshelf and they are being written by reporters like David Finkel, Dexter Filkins, and Lawrence Wright.
News Junkies 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
I've never heard of a muddler. I suppose it could be used interchangeably with potato masher.
December 23, 2019
plethora commented on the word muddler
Don't you dare bring a potato masher anywhere near my cocktails tyvm
December 23, 2019
bilby commented on the word muddler
New Batman uber-foe: The Muddler. Terrorising Gotham City by mixing cocktails with a potato masher.
December 24, 2019
ry commented on the word muddler
they may be interchangeable in one direction, at least: in the current twitter cites, a person claims to have made mashed potatoes with a muddler
December 24, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
The Houdini Deluxe Mojito Muddler:
https://tinyurl.com/whz7y9q
Also, get your muddler away from my double jigger!
https://tinyurl.com/rg5ktyc
December 28, 2019
bilby commented on the word muddler
How often would one need to drink mojitos, theoretically, to require a mojito-specific muddler?
December 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
Not to be confused with a puddler, cuddler, fuddler or huddler.
December 31, 2019