Fuddle

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [Colloq.]
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           I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
                                                    --Steele.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. i.
     To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fuddle
       v 1: make stupid with alcohol [syn: {befuddle}]
       2: consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn: {drink},
           {booze}]
       3: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, upset