fuddle

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: fud=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

fuddle, v. t. [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.].

 To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.  [1913 Webster]
"I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders."  [1913 Webster]

fuddle, v. i. 

 To drink to excess.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fuddle, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. confuse or stupefy, esp. with alcoholic liquor.
2 intr. tipple, booze.
--n.
1 confusion.
2 intoxication.
3 a spell of drinking (on the fuddle).

Etymology

16th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

fuddle

Dutch courage, a high, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, besottedness, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle, booze up, boozify, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, chaos, cloud, confound, confuse, confusion, crock, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, distract, disturb, disturbance, drunkenness, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddledness, fuddlement, fuss, get, hangover, haze, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, jumble, katzenjammer, keep in suspense, lick, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, morning after, muddle, muddlement, mystify, nonplus, overtake, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pickle, plaster, pollute, pot-valiance, pot-valor, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, shuffle, sottedness, souse, stew, stick, stone, stump, swack, sweat, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, tipsify, tipsiness, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset

ROGET THESAURUS

fuddle

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.