English Dictionary

meddle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɛd.əl/

動詞

廃用 アメリカ英語 自動詞 地域限定

To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. / (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.

日本語の意味

余計に関わる、干渉する / おせっかいをする

Please don't meddle in matters that don't concern you.

関係のないことに干渉しないでください。

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

(obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.

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

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(intransitive, now US regional) To have sex.

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

meddles （ present singular third-person ）

meddling （ participle present ）

meddled （ participle past ）

meddled （ past ）