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▪ I. fuddle, n. slang or colloq.|ˈfʌd(ə)l|
[f. next vb.]
†1. Drink, liquor, ‘booze’. Obs.
1680R. L'Estrange Colloq. Erasm. 124 They have taken their Dose of Fuddle. c1680Roxb. Ball. (1890) VII. 78 With a cup of fuddle. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Fuddle, Drink. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. i. v, We sipp'd our Fuddle, As Women in the Straw do Caudle.
2. A drinking bout. on the fuddle: out for a lengthened spell of drinking.
a1813A. Wilson My Landlady's Nose Poet. Wks. (1846) 301 Old Patrick M'Dougherty when on the fuddle, Pulls out a cigar, and [etc.]. 1832–53Whistle-binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. iii. 111 For a ance-a-year fuddle I'd scarce gie a strae. 1865B. Brierley Irkdale I. 61 At th' height of a wakes fuddle. 1891Newcastle Even. Chron. 29 Jan. 3/1 She usually provided food in the house when she was not on the ‘fuddle’.
3. Intoxication; an intoxicated state.
1764Low Life 24 In order to take large Morning Draughts, and secure the first Fuddle of the Day. 1890Yoshiwara Episode 67 If he were only in his senses, instead of in a fuddle.
4. transf. The state of being muddled, confused, or the like.
1827R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 219 My notions about it have been..very fuddled and bewildered; and, I suppose, if I were to attempt to analyse and explain them, I might raise my fuddle to the nth power. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust ii. v, He rushed about—Vain was his frenzied fuddle.
▪ II. fuddle, v.|ˈfʌd(ə)l|
[Of obscure origin; cf. Du. vod soft, slack, loose, Ger. dial. fuddeln to swindle.]
1. intr. To have a drinking bout; to tipple, booze. Also, to fuddle it.
1588Acc. in Morris Chester (1895) 328 John Wright, for fuddleing and drinkinge with other leters and molestationers, just nothing. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 116 note, See a Captain of a ship sending for this, and the other shandy fellow..to fuddle it in their cabbins. 1696W. Mountague Delights Holland 184 The Men..sit up Gaming and Fuddling greatest part of Night. 1713Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 137 Here Barons may talk, and Squires may fuddle. 1821Joseph the Book-Man 33 No man might drink That could not fuddle till he wink. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon iii. (1864) 53 He is going to fuddle in honour of St. Thomé.
b. quasi-trans. with away. † Also, to empty (a pot) by drinking.
c1680Roxb. Ball. (1890) VII. 77 She calls up her Neighbors, for to go and fuddle a Pot. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 431 They fuddle away the day with riot and prophaneness.
2. trans. To confuse with or as with drink, intoxicate, render tipsy.
c1600Timon ii. v. (1842) 37 Ile giue thee ale pragmaticall indeede Which, if thou drinke, shall fuddle thee hande and foote. 1633May Heir i. in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 523 Did you never come in half fuddled? 1706E. Baynard Cold Baths ii. (1709) 362, I made my Man give him a Cup of Ale..under a Pint, yet it almost fuddled him. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 233 After all the other females were fuddled with dram-drinking. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 241 The inhabitants..get fuddled with mint-julep and apple-toddy. 1837Dickens Pickw. l, Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen, both slightly fuddled. 1890Spectator 27 Dec. 938/1 It [hypnotism] fuddles the will, in fact, but does not destroy it.
absol.1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Strawberry, The Wine made of them will Fuddle. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 130 The toddy having lost all taste and all power o' fuddlin.
b. to fuddle one's cap or nose: to get drunk.
1663Cowley Cutter of Colman St. ii. ii, We'll fuddle our Noses together. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 106 If their Caps be fuddled with Ipse. 1724in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1729) 15 Come, let us fuddle all our Noses. c1793Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) I. 9 No Persian of old, till he fuddled his nose, Any measure in Senate was wont to propose.
c. transf. (See quots.)
1825Brockett N.C. Words, Fuddle, to intoxicate fish. 1835S. Oliver Rambles in Northumb. 83 What they call fuddling the fish, by liming the water, or throwing into the pools a preparation of Coculus Indicus.
3. transf. and fig. To stupefy, muddle, confuse (also † with up). Formerly also of delight, etc.: To ‘intoxicate’. (In quots. 1617, 1678 perh. = fubble.)
1617tr. De Dominis on Rom. xiii. 12 Nor would they suffer themselues to be any longer deceiued, and fuddled up in that darke cloud, and night of infolded faith. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. 157 Nature is..Reason immersed and plunged into Matter, and as it were fuddled in it, and confounded with it. 1694Crowne Married Beau v. Wks. 1874 IV. 325 Now she will fuddle me with every kiss. 1745Lady S. Cowper Let. to Mrs. Dewes 5 June in Mrs. Delany's Life & Corr. (1861) II. 356 He was quite fuddled with joy. 1803Edin. Rev. II. 398 He is fuddled with animal spirits. 1854H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 6 To impair and fuddle the intellect.
4. Comb.: † fuddle cap [see 2 b], a tippler, sot.
1666tr. Horace's Odes i. i, The Fuddlecap whose God's the Vyne. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. vi. (1737) 21 Here's to thee, old Fuddlecap. |