different between drunkard vs fuddler

English

Alternative forms

• drunkerd (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk +? -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???k?d/

Noun

drunkard (plural drunkards)

1. (somewhat derogatory) A person who is habitually drunk.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunkard

Antonyms

• on the wagon
• pioneer
• teetotaller

Related terms

• drunk
• drunkard's walk
• drunken

Translations

English

Etymology

fuddle +? -er

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,^[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, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, New York: Viking, 1967, Part 3, p. 569,^[3]

     Sing: Old Finncoole, he’s a mellow old saoul when he swills with his fuddlers free!

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

• furdled