fuddlecapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fuddlecap (複数形 fuddlecaps)

1. (obsolete) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.^[1][2] [17^th—19^th 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;

   • 1700, Edward Ward, A Journey to Hell, or, A Visit Paid to the Devil, London, Part 2, Canto 8, p. 23,^[4]

     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.

   • 1728, Thomas Woolston, A Fourth Discourse on the Miracles of our Saviour, London: for the author, p. 33,^[5]

     […] it is a broken and witless Sentence, such as Fuddlecaps utter by halves, when the Wine’s in, and the Wit’s out.

   • 1840, William Mudford, Stephen Dugard, London: R. Bentley, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 122,^[6]

     “ […] Here, fuddle-cap,” he continued, giving her some brandy, “drink, and then tell me the best news you have […] .”

同意語

• bibber
• tippler
• See also Thesaurus:drunkard

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