FuddleYesterday, my work colleagues Oop North had their Christmas Fuddle. Until they used the word, it was not one that I had come across. The dictionary meaning relates to confusion caused by alcohol, preferably lots of it (which generally suits them) but this doesn’t match yesterday’s event which was necessarily sober and planned.
What they have is an indoor bring-and-share picnic. As far as I can tell, this meaning of the word is localised to Derbyshire and perhaps Nottingham. We tried to organise one Daan Sarf last year but it was a bit of an embarasing failure so we will studiously ignore each other as usual this time.
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Derbyshire and Nottingham aren’t up north, they’re in the midlands. Northerners are as unfamiliar with the term as southerners.
OK, probably, but it is relative and I didn’t say the North of England which would have been specific (and certainly incorrect).
Well I’m from Derbyshire and we’ve always used the term fuddle (though today I’ve had to explain it to a colleague from Yorkshire…). We’re having a fuddle today!