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
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
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 and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
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
He began to look around the place with his mouth open and his eyes rolling and fuddled.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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 Hurst, Fannie
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 Rauschenbusch, Walter
The butler was quick, and the ale he did tap, The maidens did make the chamber full gay; The servants did give me a fuddling cup, And I did carry 't away, away.
From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Wilson, John Mackay
What I said in my last letter, the powers of fuddling sociality only know for me.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Vocabulary lists containing fuddle
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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