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muddler

English

Etymology

From muddle +? -er.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?m?d.l?/, /?m?d.l?/

Noun

muddler (plural muddlers)

  1. A person or thing that muddles.
  2. A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix.

Coordinate terms

  • pestle

Related terms

  • muddle
  • muddling

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fuddler

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

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