Sprachenlupe: Bichsel was not a Bruddler. But was he a fuss?

As an obituary extolled, he was «a self-thinking person, whom even the regular table could inspire to its winding thought flights. A regular table-brother, however, was not Bichsel.» It was quite possible that the writer who died in mid-March knew what a Bruddler was – and if not, it would not have been bad, since he had not been one. Miracle would have taken it probably, and probably he would have been on the right track when guessing rather th…