fuddlecap

Noun

fuddlecap (plural fuddlecaps)

1. (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.
   • The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne,
     Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;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 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, A Visit Paid to the Devil, London, Part 2, Canto 8, p. 23

   Synonyms:

   bibber, tippler