fuddlesome
English
Etymology
From fuddle + -some.
Adjective
fuddlesome (comparative more fuddlesome, superlative most fuddlesome)
- Characterised or marked by fuddling
- 2008, Meredith Nicholson, A Hoosier Chronicle:
- I understand that Mrs. Bassett's ill, and I suppose Bassett didn't like to leave her. There's nothing fuddlesome in that.
- 2014, Jules Howard, Sex on Earth:
- I wanted to sully the hedgehog's pudsy, fuddlesome reputation and discover that the females were somehow harlots and the males were skulduggerous peddlers of filth.
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