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English
Etymology
From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.
Noun
fuddlecap (plural fuddlecaps)
- (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.[1][2]
- 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;
1700, Edward Ward, A Journey to Hell, or, A Visit Paid to the Devil, London, Part 2, Canto 8, p. 23: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.
1728, Thomas Woolston, A Fourth Discourse on the Miracles of our Saviour, London: for the author, page 33:[…] it is a broken and witless Sentence, such as Fuddlecaps utter by halves, when the Wine’s in, and the Wit’s out.
1840, William Mudford, chapter 11, in Stephen Dugard, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, page 122:“ […] Here, fuddle-cap,” he continued, giving her some brandy, “drink, and then tell me the best news you have […] .”
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References
- ^ B.E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., 1699, “Fuddle-cap, a Drunkard.”
- ^ Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper, 1785, p. 68, “fuddle cap, a drunkard.”