fuddlecap means someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, fuddlecap ranks #5,038 of 20,652 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.
noun
- Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.“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;”