Word Meanings - FUDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele. (more info) Etym:

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• FUDDLER
  A drunkard. Baxter.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• STEELER
  One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
• INTOXICATION
  A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• FUDDLE
  To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele. (more info) Etym:
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• INTOXICATE
  or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were 1. Intoxicated. 2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• BEFUDDLE
  To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.