What's the difference between buddle and fuddle?

Buddle


Definition:

  • (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.
  • (v. i.) To wash ore in a buddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Key stage of the game now — we may see Buddle come in for the Rapids soon to try and tilt the balance of play their way now they've got something of a foothold in the game.
  • (2) Lots of young people voted in this election, and we didn’t talk to all those people.” One of those volunteers in New Addington, Ellen Buddle, 30, from east London, joined Labour this year, and was among the volunteers canvassing for the first time after Momentum put a call out on Twitter.
  • (3) 4.13am GMT 74 mins Buddle on for a disappointed and disappointing Brown.
  • (4) Empty, buddle like and frequently folded membrane protrusions suggest that cellular content has been delivered into the ventricle.
  • (5) I’ll definitely, definitely be canvassing again if there’s another election,” Buddle says.
  • (6) Subs: Guzan, Beasley, Bornstein, Buddle, Edu, Feilhaber, Gomez, Goodson, Holden, Spector, Torres, Hahnemann.
  • (7) Marks out of 10 Howard 9 ; Gooch 7 , DeMerit 7 , Cherundulo 6 , Bocanegra 7 ; Clarke 5 Bradley 6 Donovan 6 Dempsey 7 ; Altidore 5 (Holden 86 5 )Findley 6 (Buddle 77 5 )
  • (8) But I also want us to look at how we can change the dynamic and do different things to keep them engaged, because local party meetings can be pretty dry.” That means keeping people such as Ellen Buddle – and it sounds as if the party is on the right path.

Fuddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
  • (v. i.) To drink to excess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
  • (2) So we’re familiar with the rising anger that grips you and refuses to let go, inching its way into your extremities, fuddling your mind with rage, competing with your every thought until you just can’t take it any more and you have to send a sternly worded email with MUGS!