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fuddled
adjective · 17th centuryIt sounds exactly like the gentle descent into a comfortable lack of focus.
Confused, muddled, or intoxicated to the point of losing one's clarity of thought.
In the wild
“After a long afternoon of cider, he sat in the armchair, entirely fuddled and quite content.”
Origin
Emerging in the 17th century, the word suggests a state of being bemused or muddied, often implying a state of happy, harmless incompetence.
Sources·Oxford English Dictionary/Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811)
Etymologist commentary·Michael Quinion, World Wide Words
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