Fuddlecap
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely. obsolete
"1666, S.W., “A Paraphrase upon the first Ode” in The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles, rendred in English verse by several persons, London: Henry Brome, p. 3, The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne, Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;"
Example
More examples"1666, S.W., “A Paraphrase upon the first Ode” in The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles, rendred in English verse by several persons, London: Henry Brome, p. 3, The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne, Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;"
Etymology
From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.
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