Fuddle

//ˈfʌdəl//

Synonyms for "fuddle" (149 found)

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Closest matches (30)

befuddle confuse a high addle addle the wits amaze baffle ball up bamboozle beat becloud bedazzle befuddlement besottedness bewilder bewilderment boggle booze up boozify bother

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botheration buffalo bug chaos cloud clutter

Verb(4 words)

baffound bedevil befuddle booze

Strong matches (45)

Related words (74)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

16 entries

affect bear on bear upon consume disorder disorderliness have impact inebriate ingest intoxicate soak take take in touch touch on

Synonyms

4 entries

befuddle clutter confuse drink

derived

7 entries

fuddle-duddle fuddlecap fuddlement fuddler fuddlesome fuddling fuddling cup

has context

4 entries

derbyshire dialect nottinghamshire uk

related to

10 entries

befuddle confuse confusion intoxicate intoxication liquor muddle party picnic potluck

similar

6 entries

confuse disconcert drink flurry put off tope

Translations

18 translations across 4 languages.

Bulgarian

4 entries

напиване noun (Intoxication)
объркване noun (confusion)
пиянство noun (Intoxication)
напивам verb (intoxicate)

German

4 entries

betütern verb (intoxicate)
saufen verb (intoxicate)
sich betrinken verb (intoxicate)
trinken verb (intoxicate)

Macedonian

4 entries

збу́нетост noun (confusion)
опи́еност noun (Intoxication)
пи́јаност noun (Intoxication)
пи́јанство noun (Intoxication)

Polish

1 entries

bajzel noun (confusion)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

She's fuddled my fancy, she's muddled me good / I've taken to drinking, and given up food

Source: wiktionary

If an author fuddles himself, I don’t know why he should be let off a headache the next morning […]

Source: wiktionary

There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.

Source: wiktionary

Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!

Source: wiktionary

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