Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fuddle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
--Steele.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. i.
To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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