Dictionary entry

Fuddle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fud″dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.,Fuddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fuddling (?).] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.