verzetteln.
to get caught up in the minutiae of, or pursue an inexpedient approach to, a task, problem, or affair
Meaning & usage
to get caught up in the minutiae of, or pursue an inexpedient approach to, a task, problem, or affair
to fritter, squander, waste, wanton (to expend haphazardly)
to spread, scatter (hay, straw) for drying
Where this word comes from
Frequentative of Middle High German verzetten (“to scatter, disperse”), from ver- + Old High German zetten (“to spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”). Combination of zetten with the instrumental suffix -eln yielded the cognate noun Zettel (“warp”); its etymologically unrelated homonym meaning “slip/piece of paper, note” in turn feeds into sense 1 of verzetteln by association with the image of disorganized paperwork.
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