You'll give a body a furlough, by the way of blowing off the fuddle he has on hand?
One day Mr. Kordé had drunk himself into an unusual state of fuddle.
But there is no doubt that the lion of the evening was—the “fuddle.”
Thee-ing and thou-ing till it is enough to fuddle a sober man's wits.
Nazinred and Mozwa had never seen anything of the kind before, or heard the strains of a “fuddle.”
His head was a fuddle of bushy hair and whiskers, from which his eyes peered with a guilty slant.
We shall want very clear heads for what's in front of us, and I'm not going to fuddle mine for a commencement.
Now you'll hear something you might have heard that first night when I had to fuddle you with tales of a seizure.
Because he eats tallow candles and is happy when he can fuddle himself on bad liquor.
Hamla Ombashi is a corporal of the transport service, and "fuddle" is to sit down.
1580s, originally "to get drunk," later "to confuse as though with drink" (c.1600), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Low German fuddeln "work in a slovenly manner (as if drunk)," from fuddle "worthless cloth." The more common derivative befuddle appeared 1887. Related: Fuddled; fuddling.
