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Little used English words
| March 25th, 2017 at 2:26:08 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Fuddle and befuddle. Fuddle is a real word, it means to make someone disoriented or confused. But we never hear it anymore, we say befuddle, which means almost the same thing. "Fuddle meant to become fuddled and befuddle meant to make someone fuddled. However, we stopped using this prefix so the differences between the prefixed and unprefixed forms began disappearing." If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |