fuddlecap

Noun

1. 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...
   • 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. - 1700, Edward Ward, A Journey to Hell, or,...
   • […] it is a broken and witless Sentence, such as Fuddlecaps utter by halves, when the Wine’s in, and the Wit’s out. - 1728, Thomas Woolston, A Fourth Discourse on the Miracles of our Saviour, London: for the author,...