fuzzle

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/ˈfʌzəl/

verb

To make drunk or confused.

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Meanings

verbfuzzle (third-person singular simple present fuzzles, present participle fuzzling, simple past and past participle fuzzled)

present singular third person fuzzles · participle present fuzzling · participle past fuzzled · past fuzzled

  1. archaictransitiveTo make drunk or confused.

    if the spirits of the brain be fuzzled or misaffected by such means at such a time, their children will be fuzzled in the brain

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
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    Through her tears she saw him counting—on his entry into Paradise—the children who had preceded him, and more than ever fuzzled by the flapping of their wings.

    1903, Israel Zangwill, The Grey Wig, The Serio-comic Governess

Origin

Compare Low German fuseln (“to drink common liquor”), from fusel (“bad liquor”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fuzzle

puzzlebuzzleguzzlenuzzlebefuzzleconfuzzle
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APA

fuzzle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzle

MLA

“fuzzle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fuzzle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzle.

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