Fuddlecap

Quick meaning: Fuddlecap is a noun meaning (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.

Meaning

(obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.

Example Sentences

[…] 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 […].”

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.

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;

Word Forms

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Synonyms for fuddlecap

Depending on context, synonyms include bibber, tippler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fuddler, bibber, muddlehead, slubberdegullion, bubber, chugger.

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