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fuddled

adjective · 17th century

It 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.

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