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Sep 28, 2017 · fuddle. (v.) 1580s, "to get drunk" (intransitive); c. 1600, "to confuse as though with drink" (transitive), of obscure origin, perhaps from Low German fuddeln "work in a slovenly manner (as if drunk)," from fuddle "worthless cloth." The more common derivative befuddle dates only to 1873.
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fuddle 뜻: 만취; 1580년대, "술에 취하다" (무정지); 약 1600년, "술에 취한 것처럼...
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The earliest known use of the noun fuddle is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for fuddle is from 1680, in a translation by Roger L'Estrange, author and press censor. It is also recorded as a verb from the late 1500s.
Glossary of terms found in 16th and 17th century Presentment Bills. The following list is not exhaustive, but aims to cover most of the terms which would be unfamiliar to modern researchers.
TermMeaningabsolutionacceptance of an individual back to the ...Act Booksthe principal record of the business ...apparitorcourt messenger, whose duties included ...articles/ books of articleslists of questions to be answered at a ...Early Modern English. • Leme (Lexicons of Early Modern English) • A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, par Robert Crawdrey (1604) (+ text version)
It’s meaning developed to “a liquid to drink” in the 14th century. Later, it finally came to mean “an alcoholic beverage” in the 16th century. 10. Naughty. Currently, “naughty” means prone to disobedience or misbehavior. But in the 1300s, a naughty person is someone who has “naught” or nothing. 11. Flirt.
What does the verb fuddle mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb fuddle . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Aug 8, 2022 · To ‘fuck up’ or spoil something, they’d have used ‘to bodge’ or ‘to botch’. To say something was codswallop, baloney, bollocks, they’d have gone with trumpery, baggage, rubbish or the wonderful reduplicating terms that appear in the 1570s and 80s: flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, or fible-fable.
