fuddlesome

English

Etymology

From fuddle +‎ -some.

Adjective

fuddlesome (comparative more fuddlesome, superlative most fuddlesome)

  1. 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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