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单词 fuddle
释义 fud·dle
I. \ˈfədəl\ verb
(fuddled ; fuddled ; fuddling \-d(ə)liŋ\ ; fuddles)
Etymology: origin unknown
intransitive verb
: to take part in a drinking bout : tipple
 < then there's fuddling about in the public houses, and drinking bad spirits — Thomas Hughes >
transitive verb
1. : to make drunk : intoxicate
 < she would fuddle herself every night with ale and whiskey — Richard Free >
2. : to make confused : muddle
 < corridors, archways, recesses … combined to fuddle any sense of direction — Elizabeth Bowen >
3. : to make (a fish) torpid : stupefy
 < catch a trout by fuddling him — A.A.Horn >
II. noun
(-s)
1. obsolete : liquor
 < we sipped our fuddle — Ned Ward >
2. : intoxication
 < a venerable toper … whom the oldest inhabitant had never seen otherwise than in a state of benevolent fuddle — Norman Douglas >
3. chiefly Britain : a prolonged drinking spell — used especially in the phrase on the fuddle
4. : a confused mixture : jumble
 < in front of a side altar a fuddle of candles burned — Bruce Marshall >
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