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fuddles

fuddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fuddle.

Meaning of fuddle

Verb

fuddle (third-person singular simple present fuddles, present participle fuddling, simple past and past participle fuddled)

  1. (transitive) To confuse or befuddle.
    • She's fuddled my fancy, she's muddled me good / I've taken to drinking, and given up food1973, “A Rum Tale”, in Grand Hotel, performed by Procol Harum
  2. (transitive) To intoxicate.
    • If an author fuddles himself, I don’t know why he should be let off a headache the next morning […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 33, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  3. (intransitive) To become intoxicated; to get drunk.
    • Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book

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Questions about fuddles

What is fuddles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fuddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fuddle.

Words near fuddles in the dictionary

  1. fuddled
  2. fuddledness
  3. fuddlement
  4. fuddler
  5. fuddlers
  6. fuddles
  7. fuddlesome
  8. fuddling
  9. fuddling cup
  10. fuddling cups
  11. fuddlings

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