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At the close of Plato's banquet, at daybreak, when all the evening's revelers and rhetoricians have passed out, Socrates rises from among the sleepers and goes to spend the balance of the day in his customary manner, for the philosopher feels no fuddle, and reason does not weary of its work; nor will it here, because the philosopher's distant student has also wakened early, left the priestly functions toward which his studious nature had initially inclined him, and begun his service as a physician, consequently as a scholar of Hippocrates and Galen, among the Greeks the more empirically inclined.

Within a few years there were a range of wines on the market bearing such names as Luv-a-Duk, Fuddle Duck and Little White Duck.

"Oh, Fuddle! They're friendly, like kittens you cuddle.

13 Who played the imbecile Guy Fuddle in the Jennifer Saunders comedy Happy Families?

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Clearly, we old fuddle duddies all believe that what we simply need is more reporters like us.

17 In which 1985 sitcom did Jennifer Saunders play grandmother Edith Fuddle and all four of her grandchildren, Joyce, Cassie, Roxanne and Madelaine?

"We had a get-together afterwards with a 'fuddle' and presentation of certificates and medals for all the volunteers by Mr Sheerman."

Or maybe a fuddle, as the former First Minister Henry McLeish, who was over at Hampden yesterday, might have said.

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"There was a staff fuddle at lunchtime and lots of lovely presents from children, staff, friends and parents.

18 Which comedienne starred in the Ben Elton sitcom Happy Families playing various members of the Fuddle family?

Whether this 108-minute film now exists as a muddle in a fuddle or a fuddle in a muddle, Cassandra's Dream is a nautical nightmare which can only befuddle.

A HUDDLE with a flag is a fuddle. But Berti Vogts' idea to have his players wave a Saltire as if it were a blanket waiting to catch a rooftop evacuee paid off against all expectations at Hampden.

MY SISTER always used to get round a certain swear word by saying she was in a mucking fuddle. One day she said it the right way round and blushed scarlet.