fuzzle
English
Etymology
Compare Low German fuseln (“to drink common liquor”), from fusel (“bad liquor”).
Verb
fuzzle (third-person singular simple present fuzzles, present participle fuzzling, simple past and past participle fuzzled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fuzzle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)