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fuddlesome

fuddlesome adjective: characterised or marked by fuddling.

Adjective

fuddlesome (comparative more fuddlesome, superlative most fuddlesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by fuddling
    • I understand that Mrs. Bassett's ill, and I suppose Bassett didn't like to leave her. There's nothing fuddlesome in that.2008, Meredith Nicholson, A Hoosier Chronicle
    • I wanted to sully the hedgehog's pudsy, fuddlesome reputation and discover that the females were somehow harlots and the males were skulduggerous peddlers of filth.2014, Jules Howard, “The Greatest Story Never Told” (chapter 12), in Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction, New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 215

Forms of fuddlesome

comparativemore fuddlesome
superlativemost fuddlesome

Origin of fuddlesome

From fuddle + -some.

Questions about fuddlesome

What does fuddlesome mean?
Fuddlesome means characterised or marked by fuddling.
What part of speech is fuddlesome?
Fuddlesome is an adjective.

Words near fuddlesome in the dictionary

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

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