Definizione monolingua

meddle

meddle (third-person singular simple present meddles, present participle meddling, simple past and past participle meddled)

1. (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. [14th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue [...].

2. (intransitive, now US regional) To have sex. [from 14th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     And in the same tyme that they medled togydirs, Abell was begotyn.

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.v:

     Take a rams head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together [...].

3. To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. [from 14th c.]

Definizione dizionario meddle

immischiarsi

impicciare

interferire

intromettersi

mischiare

Altri significati:

interfere in affairs

(intransitive, now US regional) To have sex. [from 14th c.]

poke one’s nose (into other’s business)

(obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. [14th-17th c.]

To intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly.

To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. [from 14th c.]