intoxicate; confuse, muddle; drink until intoxicated, get drunk
confusion, muddled state
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Fuddle Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
(v. i.)
To drink to excess.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo drink to excess.
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.
fuddle
\fud"dle\, v. i. to drink to excess. [colloq.]
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]
Verb
1. make stupid with alcohol
(synonym) befuddle
(hypernym) intoxicate, soak, inebriate
2. consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"
(synonym) drink, booze
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) port
(verb-group) drink, tope
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"
(synonym) confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) demoralize
(verb-group) confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off
