cheshyre, I looked, and yes, "muddler" appears in the OED with the definition you and xiphias were discussing. It's the second definition (after "one who muddles").
In fact, we were. The discussion was regarding whether or not "muddler" was a "real" word. cheshyre hadn't found it in the American Heritage and asked if I had access to an OED. Since my parents got me one for my 30th birthday, I said I'd look it up. And, behold, it was there.
Jackson Cannon, the bar manager at Eastern Standard, made the offhand comment that "muddler" wasn't in the dictionary. We asked WHICH dictionary, and discovered that he was right that there ARE dictionaries which fail to have it.
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Date: 2008-02-18 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-02-18 05:18 pm (UTC)Jackson Cannon, the bar manager at Eastern Standard, made the offhand comment that "muddler" wasn't in the dictionary. We asked WHICH dictionary, and discovered that he was right that there ARE dictionaries which fail to have it.
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Date: 2008-02-20 01:47 am (UTC)Out of curiousity, when was the earliest citation?
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Date: 2008-02-20 02:29 am (UTC)