fuddle(n = noun.state) clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter - a confused multitude of things; Array
is a kind of disorder, disorderliness
has particulars: rummage
1. fuddle(v = verb.consumption) befuddle - make stupid with alcohol; Array
is one way to inebriate, intoxicate, soak
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
2. fuddle(v = verb.consumption) booze, drink - consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"
is one way to consume, have, ingest, take, take in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
3. fuddle(v = verb.cognition) bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
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]
To drink to excess. [1913 Webster]
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.
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.