different between fuddle vs guddle

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Verb

fuddle (third-person singular simple present fuddles, present participle fuddling, simple past and past participle fuddled)

1. (transitive) To confuse or befuddle.
2. (transitive) To intoxicate.
3. (intransitive) To become intoxicated; to get drunk.

Derived terms

• (to confuse): fuddlesome (“confusing”)
• (to become intoxicated): fuddlecap, fuddler (“drunkard”), fuddling (“intoxication”)

Translations

Noun

fuddle (countable and uncountable, plural fuddles)

1. Intoxication.
2. (uncountable) Intoxicating drink; liquor.
3. Muddle, confusion.
4. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Scots guddle, imitative of the splashing of water, and modelled after words like muddle and puddle, perhaps influenced by Scots gutter (“to spatter with mud”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA^(key): /???d(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d(?)l/, [???-]
• Rhymes: -?d?l
• Hyphenation: gud?dle

Verb

guddle (third-person singular simple present guddles, present participle guddling, simple past and past participle guddled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland, fishing) To catch (fish) with the hands, especially by groping at the bank of a stream or under stones.

   Synonym: (usually of large catfish) noodle

Derived terms

• guddler
• guddling (noun)

Translations

References

Further reading

• fishing techniques on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guddle, v.²”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2019
• “guddle, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Scots

Etymology

Unknown, but see etymology of English section.

Verb

guddle

1. To catch fish with the hands, especially by groping under stones or at the banks of a stream.
2. To dabble (as a duck).
3. To play in the gutters, mud or puddles.
4. To do work of a dirty or greasy nature.

Noun

guddle (plural guddles)

1. mess, muddle