Meddle

//ˈmɛd.əl// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.

    "[…] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]?"

  2. 2
    intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly wordnet
  3. 3
    To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. obsolete

    "[…]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…]."

  4. 4
    To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. obsolete

    "[H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…]."

  5. 5
    To have sex. US, intransitive, regional

    "But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour"

Etymology

From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin misceō (“to mix”).

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