fuddle
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In colliding with a new type of animal, a chemical that might once have served to fuddle the wits of pests has been transformed into a glittering lure.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2020
But Selby got Fu in a fuddle on the final red and went on to take a four-frame advantage at 6-2.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2017
The frothy fuddle with which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He bowed slightly, backed up to his chair, slumped into it in a complete fuddle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you think you can fuddle me with a mass of words, Mr. Harley?
From Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer
That same year, Cosby struck a deal with former Montgomery County District Attorney, Bruce Castor, who fuddled the case after deciding not to file charges against Cosby.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2021
“Holy Smoke!” said the fuddled one; “he spoke to me—to me!”
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020
I spent the next few days in the hospital, fuddled and becalmed, thinking mostly about the orange popsicles from the vending machine outside my room, food of the gods that I begged from visitors.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016
Food is no longer a reliable pleasure; radiotherapy has fuddled her taste buds, making everything taste off.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2016
"I . . . yes, they seemed . . ." He is fumbling for a lie, Catelyn realized, but the wine has fuddled his wits.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Ah, fuddling your brains with that stuff, still, are you?
From Amabel Channice by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
He was fumbling at his luggage for the small pasteboard box, haste fuddling his movements.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Fannie Hurst
To make a better deal for the fire-eater's phosphates than his fuddling old trustee here was going to close with.
From Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister
Self-delight and genius will again be the habit of the minds of men and the days of our present poor, pale, fuddling, unbelieving, Simon-says-thumbs-up education will be numbered.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
What I said in my last letter, the powers of fuddling sociality only know for me.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Vocabulary lists containing fuddle
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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