fuddlecap

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|obsolete}} Someone who drinks [[alcoholic]] [[beverage]]s too [[freely]].<ref>B.E., ''A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew'', London: W. Hawes ''et al.'', 1699, “Fuddle-cap, a Drunkard.”^{[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39127.0001.001]}</ref><ref>Francis Grose, ''A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'', London: S. Hooper, 1785, p.{{nbsp}}68, “fuddle cap, a drunkard.”^{[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001463958]}</ref> {{defdate|17^th—19^th centuries.}}

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