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Fuddle

verb
(past & past part. fuddled; pres. part. fuddling)
1.
Make stupid with alcohol.  Synonym: befuddle.
2.
Consume alcohol.  Synonyms: booze, drink.
3.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"



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"Fuddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... have no wants, because they stretch themselves out contentedly and warm themselves in the sun when they have secured a handful of macaroni. Why is the Russian Cossack so backward in civilization? Because he eats tallow candles and is happy when he can fuddle himself on bad liquor. To have as many needs as possible, but to satisfy them in an honorable and respectable way, that is the virtue of the present, of the economic age! And, so long as you do not understand and follow that ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... redskin. See below, p. 203. From Tyrker's grimaces one commentator sagely infers that he had been eating grapes and got drunk; and another (even Mr. Laing!) thinks it necessary to remind us that all the grape-juice in Vinland would not fuddle a man unless it had been fermented,—and then goes on to ascribe the absurdity to our innocent chronicle, instead of the stupid annotator. See Heimskringla, vol. ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske



Words linked to "Fuddle" :   consume, nonplus, stick, bewilder, be, tank, rummage, dumbfound, flurry, flummox, pose, gravel, take, wine, tope, disorient, baffle, tipple, disconcert, disorderliness, disorder, hit it up, put off, stupefy, inebriate, puzzle, amaze, port, mystify, soak, hold, disorientate, beat, bib, bar hop, souse, perplex, get, vex, intoxicate, ingest, drink, have, demoralize, carry, take in, pub-crawl, claret



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