Crossword clues for fuddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fuddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling.] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
--Steele.
Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. i. To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to get drunk" (intransitive); c.1600, "to confuse as though with drink" (transitive), of obscure origin, perhaps from Low German fuddeln "work in a slovenly manner (as if drunk)," from fuddle "worthless cloth." The more common derivative befuddle dates only to 1873. Related: Fuddled; fuddling. A hard-drinker in 17c. might be called a fuddle-cap (1660s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 intoxication. 2 muddle, confusion. 3 (rft-sense) (context UK dialect Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Bedfordshire English) A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck. vb. 1 To confuse or befuddle. 2 To intoxicate.
WordNet
v. make stupid with alcohol [syn: befuddle]
consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn: drink, booze]
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fuddle".
Look at the cavities here, that is where the toxins come from that fuddle him.
Although he was never quite drunk, he seemed never quite sober either, and wine did not calm or fuddle him as it did other, lesser men.
But by then there was another sexbox cruising down the floor towards us, and I was too fuddled and clogged to argue.
She placed my hand on the electrical cashmere of her lap and I felt my dick give a sick and fuddled lurch.
Far too late, his people far too fuddled to respond in time, not possible to begin with, maybe.
Spandrel drank his fill as well and was soon too fuddled to follow what was being said.
He drank from morning to night, never entirely fuddled, floating in a private world which must be comic, since it brought a grin to his face.
Laing looked out across the darkness at the brilliantly lit decks of the nearby high-rise, barely aware of the other guests who had arrived and were sitting in the chairs around himthe television newsreader Paul Crosland, and a film critic named Eleanor Powell, a hard-drinking redhead whom Laing often found riding the elevators up and down in a fuddled attempt to find her way out of the building.
Dubble had a cottage not far distant, with a scolding wife and an uppish daughter, and that it was because she knew of his home discomforts that Miss Tranter allowed him to pass many of his evenings at her inn, smoking and sipping a mild ale, which without fuddling his brains, assisted him in part to forget for a time his domestic worries.
Hope he meets the vandals, thought Andrew uncharitably, shaking his fuddled head, trying to clear it.
I went to sleep, fuddled by the wine, to the sound of rain pelting on the roof, cascading down the gutters and over the cobbles.
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
Also: fuddled, lush, mellow, merry, plastered, primed, sozzled, squiffy, topheavy, tight, oiled, and one over the eight.
I charred the toe of one of my chukkas doing this, but the habilines, fuddled, parted to give me passage, then closed again and followed me to the lip of the granite wall.
I wasn't sure whether I was naturally stupid, or merely fuddled with cherry brandy, but it seemed a pointless undertaking, even for Charles Stu.