ppl. a. [f. FUDDLE v. + -ED1.] Intoxicated; also, muddled.
1656. H. More, Enthus. Triumph., 7. Which made the Persians undertake no weighty matter nor strike up a bargain of any great consequence, but they would consider of it first both welnigh fuddled and sober.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, vi. 420.
| What care our Drunken Dames to whom they spread? | |
| Wine, no distinction makes of Tail or Head. | |
| Who lewdly Dancing at a Midnight-Ball, | |
| For hot Eringoes, and Fat Oysters call: | |
| Full Brimmers to their Fuddled Noses thrust; | |
| Brimmers the last Provocatives of Lust. |
1730–46. Thomson, Autumn, 537.
| Earnest, brimming bowls | |
| Lave every soul, the table floating round, | |
| And pavement, faithless to the fuddled foot. |
1830. Boston Gaz., 26 Oct., 4. I was not drunk, I was only fuddled.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, v. 117. Our men soon pacified the fuddled but good-humoured medico, who, entering his beer-cellar, called on two of them to help him to carry out a huge pot of beer, which he generously presented to us.
