Okay, Okay, I know it’s been a while.
I was writing the second installment of my book when I decided to use the word ‘befuddled.’ It was a genuinely perfect word for the situation that arose but I then stared at it in all its glory and thought to myself, “What would happen if ‘befuddle’ had some archaic meaning that I don’t know?”
As in all situations like this I strolled on over to my one stop shop for words: dictionary.reference.com (not paid to type that, I just REALLY like their site). I typed in ‘befuddle’ and got a nice definition. It means either to confuse or make drunk. Then I thought, “what about fuddle? Is that even a word?
IT IS!
I’m such a dork.
It means the exact same thing! I thought it was such an underappreciated term that I changed my befuddle into fuddle, just to be quirky. I wonder what my-nonexistent-at-this-time publisher will think of that when s/he comes across that.
Tootles!
That’s also an odd word. I wonder…
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