fuddlerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fuddler (複数形 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,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     “Owd Roddle” is a broken-down village fuddler, in Smallbridge; perpetually racking his brains about “another gill.”

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, OCLC 715577589; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, OCLC 867955333:

同意語

• alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

アナグラム

• furdled