What does fuddlecap mean?
Fuddlecap means (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely..
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;
The num’rous throng of Fuddle-Caps, that here Promiscuously before the Bar appear, On others ruine have themselves enrich’d, And with their charming Juice the World bewitch’d.
[…] it is a broken and witless Sentence, such as Fuddlecaps utter by halves, when the Wine’s in, and the Wit’s out.
“[…] Here, fuddle-cap,” he continued, giving her some brandy, “drink, and then tell me the best news you have […].”
Use fuddlecap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fuddlecap means (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely..
Common synonyms include bibber, tippler.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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;
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