fuddlesome

English

Etymology

From fuddle +‎ -some.

Adjective

fuddlesome (comparative more fuddlesome, superlative most fuddlesome)

1. Characterised or marked by fuddling
   • 2008, Meredith Nicholson, A Hoosier Chronicle:

     I understand that Mrs. Bassett's ill, and I suppose Bassett didn't like to leave her. There's nothing fuddlesome in that.

   • 2014, Jules Howard, Sex on Earth:

     I wanted to sully the hedgehog's pudsy, fuddlesome reputation and discover that the females were somehow harlots and the males were skulduggerous peddlers of filth.