fuddler
Noun

fuddler (plural fuddlers)

  1. (colloquial, archaic) A drunkard.
    • 1696, Richard Baxter, Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times, edited by Matthew Sylvester, London: T. Parkhurst et al., Book 1, Part 1, p. 4,
      And the last, I heard of him was, that he was grown a Fudler, and Railer at strict men.
    • 1855, Edwin Waugh, Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities, London: Whittaker, p. 113,
      “Owd Roddle” is a broken-down village fuddler, in Smallbridge; perpetually racking his brains about “another gill#Etymology_2|gill.”
    • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, New York: Viking, 1967, Part 3, p. 569,
      Sing: Old Finncoole, he’s a mellow old saoul when he swills with his fuddlers free!
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