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
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
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
And, once cured of fuddling, he turned out a most worthy and efficient fellow.
From The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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
What hath that spare figure, made of dry wood, to do with the mellow fuddling of our noses?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
A root grew on the Natal flat with which I frequently captured fish; it had the effect of fuddling them, and made them jump out of the water, if used in a confined space.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
“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
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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