fuddlecap

== English == === Etymology === From fuddle (“liquor”) +‎ cap (“head”); compare madcap. === Noun === fuddlecap (plural fuddlecaps) (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely. [17th—19th centuries.] 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,[3] The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne, Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine; ==== Synonyms ==== bibber tippler See also Thesaurus:drunkard === References ===