[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fuddle \fud"dle\, v. t. imp.  p. p. fuddled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   fuddling. perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. cf.
   fuzzle.
   to make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
   colloq.
   1913 webster

         i am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
                                                  --steele.
   1913 webster
see also:
fuddled fuddling fuzzle 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fuddle \fud"dle\, v. i.
   to drink to excess. colloq.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fuddle
     v 1: make stupid with alcohol syn: befuddle
     2: consume alcohol; "we were up drinking all night" syn: drink,
         booze
     3: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think
        clearly; "these questions confuse even the experts"; "this
        question completely threw me"; "this question befuddled
        even the teacher" syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle,
         bedevil, confound, discombobulate
see also:
befuddle drink booze confuse throw fox 
bedevil confound discombobulate 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

118 moby thesaurus words for "fuddle":
   dutch courage, a high, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle,
   ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle,
   befuddlement, besottedness, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle,
   booze up, boozify, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, chaos, cloud,
   confound, confuse, confusion, crock, daze, dazzle, discombobulate,
   discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose,
   discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization,
   disorganize, disorient, disorientation, distract, disturb,
   disturbance, drunkenness, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle,
   floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddledness,
   fuddlement, fuss, get, hangover, haze, inebriation, inebriety,
   insobriety, intoxication, jumble, katzenjammer, keep in suspense,
   lick, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, morning after, muddle,
   muddlement, mystify, nonplus, overtake, perplex, perplexity,
   perturb, perturbation, pickle, plaster, pollute, pot-valiance,
   pot-valor, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle,
   ruffle, shuffle, sottedness, souse, stew, stick, stone, stump,
   swack, sweat, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, throw off,
   tipsify, tipsiness, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset

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