Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To put into a state of confusion; befuddle. See Synonyms at confuse.
- v. To make drunk; intoxicate.
- v. To drink; tipple.
- n. A state of confusion or intoxication.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make foolish or stupid with drink; make intoxicated.
- To drink to excess.
- n. Strong drink.
Wiktionary
- v. To confuse or befuddle
- v. To intoxicate
- n. intoxication
- n. muddle, confusion
- n. UK, dialect A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
- v. colloq. To drink to excess.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- n. a confused multitude of things
- v. consume alcohol
- v. make stupid with alcohol
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“In a lonesome land, where amusements are few and the nights long, the power to "fuddle" counts for much.”
“In Robin: Search for a Hero no one bothered to fix the misdirected word balloons on page 32 that fuddle up a conversation between Tim and Dick Grayson.”
“Mike Myers is back this Summer, bringing with him a new character to entertain and possibly be-fuddle.”
“The rapture is just around the cornor anyway so why preserve the earth ? fuddle duddle says:”
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“We have an imperfect justice system where poor defendants are given minimal legal attention by often lesser qualified individuals. fuddle duddle says:”
“Spenc Canada – nice cogent arguments. fuddle duddle says:”
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“McBush will fuddle along until Novemeber and I'm going to enjoy a ever so sweet victory of the Dems in control.”
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“And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘fuddle’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words of indeterminate origin
Words of which the origin is unknown.
(i.e. we don't know who coined them and they probably aren't derived from another language like Latin)fuddle, conundrum, grouse, scad, pod, culvert, dude, dahoon, bloke, hootenanny, gib, malarky and 5 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
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The Confidence Man
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The Golem's Eye
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ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
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Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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the, testosterone, estrogen, cache, memory, antimnemonic, politics, gynophagia, prophylactic, proletariat, beguile, Vegemite and 36 more...
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Feckless's list
Odd, but strange
somnolent, ubiquitous, solipsism, interfrastically, contrafibulations, lambast, eschew, obfuscation, allochthonous, xenophobe, fecund, fuddle and 4 more...
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nobody's Words
blubber, poodle, quack, smite, pummel, fuzzy, onomatopoeia, ipsedixitism, pwn, cwm, nth, fluffy and 85 more...
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Words to Learn
pittance, prig, mawkish, raiment, legerdemain, uxoricide, derelict, natter, strop, tipple, extol, signet and 39 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for fuddle.
yarb And if none of these claims us, appalling
age, like a fuddling narcotic,
has the same effect on the rest of us.
- Peter Reading, There seem to be so many of them,, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981 Jun 29, 2008