fuddling

English

Verb

fuddling

present participle and gerund of fuddle

Noun

fuddling (countable and uncountable, plural fuddlings)

Synonym of drunkenness, intoxication from alcohol.
Synonym of alcohol, an intoxicant.
- c. 1651, "A Briefe Description of the Island of Barbados" in Trinity College MS G4, p. 15]:
  ...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.