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brouiller

Pronunciation: /bʁu.je/

“brouiller” is a French word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to blur
  2. to mix up, confuse
  3. to scramble (an egg)
  4. to set at odds, put (someone) off (something)
  5. to jam (a transmission), to scramble (a message)
  6. to become blurred, get mixed up
  7. to fall out
  8. to cloud over

In French

  1. Mettre pêle-mêle, mêler, mélanger.
  2. Troubler, déranger, altérer, en parlant de choses matérielles qui ne peuvent être mêlées.
  3. Bouleverser, confondre, troubler, en parlant de choses morales, ou des personnes.
  4. Mettre la désunion ou la mésintelligence entre des personnes.
  5. Mettre en dégoût.
  6. Mettre la désunion, la mésintelligence entre des personnes qui vivaient bien ensemble.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French brouiller, from Old French brouiller, from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre, from *brodicāre (compare Lombard brodigar (“to soil, pollute”)), from Late Latin brodium (“broth, stew, mixture”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“stock, broth”). More at English broth, broil.

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