What's the difference between fuddle and potluck?

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!

Potluck


Definition:

  • (n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A potluck dinner to which my guests brought a dish or a bottle of wine, and I spun some music on vinyl to match.
  • (2) Photograph: The Guardian Before marching, the protesters gathered for a potluck on a warm afternoon in Huntington Park, at the top of the tony Nob Hill neighborhood and the epicenter of old town San Francisco.
  • (3) We always take it in turns to host, and to choose the book; there's always a potluck approach to the menu because everyone loves to cook, but usually it's loosely themed around the book we are reading.
  • (4) Someone on a bullhorn welcomed the group: “On Washington Street [at Pishevar’s house] tonight, it’s not a potluck, it’s $30,000,” she said.

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