fuddle

Intoxication.

Noun

Intoxication.
Intoxicating drink; liquor.
Muddle, confusion.
A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
- Yesterday we were invited to a fuddle. This is a new word & was a new experience for us. Very pleasant it was too. - 2007 December 21, Dave Hatfield, “Fuddle?”, in eGullet Forums:
- When I was I work I loved the time when we had a fuddle. Everybody decided what they were going to bring so we had an even balance of grub. We had sandwiches or cobs of ham, cheese and pate, crisps, sausage rolls,...
- My husband has to take some food into his work for a Christmas fuddle.¶ I suggested he make Christmas pudding cupcakes, but he wasn't impressed.¶ What would you make and take? - 2012 December 12, llamapup [username],...

Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).

To confuse or befuddle.
- She's fuddled my fancy, she's muddled me good / I've taken to drinking, and given up food - 1973, “A Rum Tale”, in Grand Hotel, performed by Procol Harum:
To intoxicate.
- If an author fuddles himself, I don’t know why he should be let off a headache the next morning […] - 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 33, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume...
- There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and...
To become intoxicated; to get drunk.
- Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man! - 1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book: