Jumble vs. Muddle — What's the Difference?

Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.

To mix together, especially confusedly

To mix in a confused way; throw together carelessly

To mix (a drink or the ingredients of a drink), especially with a muddler.

To muddle; confuse

To put into a state of confusion; confuse

To be mixed in a confused way

To confuse or befuddle (a person or the mind, for example).

A confused or disordered mass

To mismanage or bungle

A disordered state; a muddle

To make turbid or muddy.

(transitive) To mix or confuse.

To think, act, or proceed in a confused or aimless manner

(intransitive) To meet or unite in a confused way.

A disordered condition; a mess or jumble.

A mixture of often unrelated things.

A state of mental confusion.

Items for a rummage sale.

See muddler.

A rummage sale.

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; - often followed by together or up.

To dabble in mud.

To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.

To make turbid or muddy.

A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

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

A confused multitude of things

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

Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas

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

Be all mixed up or jumbled together;

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

Assemble without order or sense;

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

Bring into random order

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

To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.

To dabble in mud.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

A confused multitude of things

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

Make into a puddle;

Mix up or confuse;