fuddle

as inobfuscate
as inruffle
as inunsettle
as inaddle
as indiscombobulate
as inconfuse
as indaze
as influster

Synonyms for fuddle

verb confuse

Antonyms for fuddle

discombobulate

verb. confuse

Word Origin & History

1580s, originally "to get drunk," later "to confuse as though with drink" (c.1600), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Low German fuddeln "work in a slovenly manner (as if drunk)," from fuddle "worthless cloth." The more common derivative befuddle appeared 1887. Related: Fuddled; fuddling.

Example Sentences for fuddle

You'll give a body a furlough, by the way of blowing off the fuddle he has on hand?

One day Mr. Kordé had drunk himself into an unusual state of fuddle.

But there is no doubt that the lion of the evening was—the “fuddle.”

Thee-ing and thou-ing till it is enough to fuddle a sober man's wits.

Nazinred and Mozwa had never seen anything of the kind before, or heard the strains of a “fuddle.”

His head was a fuddle of bushy hair and whiskers, from which his eyes peered with a guilty slant.

We shall want very clear heads for what's in front of us, and I'm not going to fuddle mine for a commencement.

Now you'll hear something you might have heard that first night when I had to fuddle you with tales of a seizure.

Because he eats tallow candles and is happy when he can fuddle himself on bad liquor.

Hamla Ombashi is a corporal of the transport service, and "fuddle" is to sit down.

fuddle

Synonyms for fuddle

Antonyms for fuddle

More words related to fuddle

addle

confuse

confuses

daze

discombobulate

fluster