Meaning of FUDDLE
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- [v] 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"
- [v] consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"
- [v] make stupid with alcohol
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| | Synonyms: | | bedevil, befuddle, befuddle, booze, confound, confuse, discombobulate, drink, fox, throw |
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| | See Also: | | amaze, baffle, bar hop, be, beat, bewilder, bib, carry, claret, consume, demoralize, disorient, disorientate, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, have, hit it up, hold, inebriate, ingest, intoxicate, mystify, nonplus, perplex, port, pose, pub-crawl, puzzle, soak, souse, stupefy, take, take in, tipple, vex, wine | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.]
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
--Steele.
\Fud"dle\, v. i.
To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Dutch courage, 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, pother, pot-valiance, pot-valor, 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 |
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