1. Mess
2. Confusion caused by incompetence and/or lack of organisation
3. Complete cock up
4. Unsatisfactory result, often with comic consequences
5. Misguided effort
6. Fiasco
7. Result of failure to recognise consequences
Believed to have been in common usage in the British armed forces from WW2, now (2007) largely anachronistic and used by older persons who remember it or have parents who did... may link to the phrase "Don't let the buggers get you down" which probably refers primarily to the bullying of private soldiers during induction training by non commissioned officers.
2. Confusion caused by incompetence and/or lack of organisation
3. Complete cock up
4. Unsatisfactory result, often with comic consequences
5. Misguided effort
6. Fiasco
7. Result of failure to recognise consequences
Believed to have been in common usage in the British armed forces from WW2, now (2007) largely anachronistic and used by older persons who remember it or have parents who did... may link to the phrase "Don't let the buggers get you down" which probably refers primarily to the bullying of private soldiers during induction training by non commissioned officers.
About disastrous outcome caused by mismanagement:
"...The entire venture was doomed to be a bugger's muddle from the very beginning"
"...The entire venture was doomed to be a bugger's muddle from the very beginning"
by Manton February 16, 2007
An area at a rave/club where ravers/club goers sit down and engage in one or many of the following activities-massages, kissing, drug use, trading candy bracelets, personal glow stick light shows, drug use, vicks vaporub inhaling, back cracking etc.
Scott doesn't care about the music or dancing, he just cares about getting fucked up and socializing in the muddle puddle with all the other candy ravers.
by feetoid August 20, 2009
An Incompetent Middle Management structure that exists even when there are changes in upper management. Upper Management may want to set a new course of action, but is not well executed by the current inept middle management.
Lots of muddling around, with no results!
Lots of muddling around, with no results!
Roger: Hey, Dave! I heard you got a new CEO in your company.
Dave: Yes, but he won't accomplish anything, due to the current structure of Muddle Management in our group,. I swear, our company needs an enema at this level!
Dave: Yes, but he won't accomplish anything, due to the current structure of Muddle Management in our group,. I swear, our company needs an enema at this level!
by brooskitooski February 21, 2021
A level of middle management in a company where there is a high level of incompetency, where management just muddles around and does nothing!
Roger: Hey, Dave! I heard your company just got a new CEO..
Dave: Yeah, but he isn't going to do anything. Our middle management is still around, muddling about doing nothing. They are the epitome is Muddle Management!
Dave: Yeah, but he isn't going to do anything. Our middle management is still around, muddling about doing nothing. They are the epitome is Muddle Management!
by brooskitooski March 15, 2021
The art of sticking your nose into other's business. Not only does the perpetrator muddle in the affairs of others, but often times is a trained expert in fucking everything up along the way as they do so.
A true fuck muddler can be a devastating force to be reckoned with.
A true fuck muddler can be a devastating force to be reckoned with.
Hey, have you seen Brad around? He's got a tendency to go around fuck muddling.
Last time I talked to him he fuck muddled his way into my sister's wedding. The dude ruined the whole thing. Prick.
Last time I talked to him he fuck muddled his way into my sister's wedding. The dude ruined the whole thing. Prick.
by WordPoet December 8, 2014
by Aleksei190 January 11, 2017
Also known for an insult to the horrible "alternative band" Puddle of Mud, by switching the first letters of the first and last words around.
by George Wallace May 11, 2004