fuddle

Updated: May 10, 2025

One of them a venerable toper of Anacreontic youthfulness known as Charlie who turned up on Nepenthe at odd intervals and whom the oldest inhabitant of the place had never seen otherwise than in a state of benevolent fuddle was saying to him: "Instead of filling yourself up with whisky in that disgusting fashion, my friend, you ought to travel.

Norman Douglas - South Wind