maffled, ppl. a. dial.
(ˈmæf(ə)ld)
[f. maffle v. + -ed1.]
Confused, muddled.
| 1820 Southey Lett. (1856) III. 186 She was, what they call in the country, maffled; that is, confused in her intellect. 1845 De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating Wks. 1859 XII. 92 The Westmorland people..expounded his condition to us by saying that he was ‘maffled’; which word means ‘perplexed in the extreme’. 1886 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew II. x. 211 She did not smell of drink, and was sober though decidedly maffled. |