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fuddle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fuddle has 1 sense
- fuddle(n = noun.state) clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter - a confused multitude of things; Array is a kind of disorder, disorderliness
has particulars: rummage
Verb fuddle has 3 senses
- fuddle(v = verb.consumption) befuddle - make stupid with alcohol; Array is one way to inebriate, intoxicate, soak
- fuddle(v = verb.consumption) booze, drink - consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" is one way to consume, have, ingest, take, take in
- fuddle(v = verb.cognition) bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw - 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" is one way to be
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CIDE DICTIONARY
fuddle, v. t. [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.].
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [1913 Webster]
"I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders."
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fuddle, v. i.
To drink to excess. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fuddle, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. confuse or stupefy, esp. with alcoholic liquor.
2 intr. tipple, booze.
--n.
1 confusion.
2 intoxication.
3 a spell of drinking (on the fuddle).
--v.
1 tr. confuse or stupefy, esp. with alcoholic liquor.
2 intr. tipple, booze.
--n.
1 confusion.
2 intoxication.
3 a spell of drinking (on the fuddle).
Etymology
16th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
fuddle
Dutch courage, a high, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, besottedness, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle, booze up, boozify, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, chaos, cloud, confound, confuse, confusion, crock, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, distract, disturb, disturbance, drunkenness, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddledness, fuddlement, fuss, get, hangover, haze, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, jumble, katzenjammer, keep in suspense, lick, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, morning after, muddle, muddlement, mystify, nonplus, overtake, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pickle, plaster, pollute, pot-valiance, pot-valor, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, shuffle, sottedness, souse, stew, stick, stone, stump, swack, sweat, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, tipsify, tipsiness, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upsetROGET THESAURUS
fuddle
Drunkenness
VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
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