fuddled, ppl. a.
(ˈfʌd(ə)ld)
[f. fuddle v. + -ed1.]
Intoxicated; also, muddled.
| 1656 H. More Enthus. Triumph. 7 They would consider of it first both welnigh fuddled and sober. 1693 Dryden Juvenal vi. 420 Full Brimmers to their Fuddled Noses thrust. 1730–46 Thomson Autumn 537 The table floating round, And pavement, faithless to the fuddled foot. 1830 Boston Gaz. 26 Oct. 4, I was not drunk, I was only fuddled. 1865 Livingstone Zambesi v. 117 Our men soon pacified the fuddled but good-humoured medico. |