different between fuddler vs fuddle

English

Etymology

fuddle +? -er

Noun

fuddler (plural fuddlers)

1. (colloquial, archaic) A drunkard.
   • 1696, Richard Baxter, Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times, edited by Matthew Sylvester, London: T. Parkhurst et al., Book 1, Part 1, p. 4,^[1]

     And the last, I heard of him was, that he was grown a Fudler, and Railer at strict men.

   • 1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, London: Whittaker, p. 113,^[2]

     “Owd Roddle” is a broken-down village fuddler, in Smallbridge; perpetually racking his brains about “another gill.”

   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, New York: Viking, 1967, Part 3, p. 569,^[3]

     Sing: Old Finncoole, he’s a mellow old saoul when he swills with his fuddlers free!

Synonyms

• alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Anagrams

• furdled

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.

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