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fuddle

[fuhd-l] / ˈfʌd l /










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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

He bowed slightly, backed up to his chair, slumped into it in a complete fuddle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The frothy fuddle with which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood

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

Ambrose would never have managed to gull me so easily if my naturally suspicious nature hadn’t been fuddled.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Why didn't he take Mrs. General Public's advice, and get to bed instead of sitting up fuddling himself with that fool love-story?

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

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

Can it be that one of the uses of a higher education is to furnish greater facility in fuddling inconvenient truth?

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

“Yeh, we-all ust to grin at him for fuddling about on the sile before he’d seed anythin’—but golly! he got crops like-as-how we never saw raised before.”

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

As we went back to have t'other fuddling bout, we spied an old green-headed bish-hawk, who sat moping with his mate and three jolly bittern attendants, all snoring under an arbour.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux


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