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fuddlecap

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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;

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History

Etymology

From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.