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Puzzled vs Fuzzled - What's the difference?

puzzled | fuzzled |

As verbs the difference between puzzled and fuzzled

is that puzzled is (puzzle) while fuzzled is (fuzzle).

As an adjective puzzled

is confused or perplexed.

puzzled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Confused or perplexed.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Sons, 11:
    • (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

    Derived terms

    * puzzledly * puzzledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puzzle)

    • fuzzled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fuzzle)

    • fuzzle

    English

    Verb

    (fuzzl)
  • (obsolete) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
    • (Burton)
    (Webster 1913)