different between fuddler vs fiddler

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English fiþelere, from Old English fiþelere, from fiþele. Equivalent to fiddle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d?l?(?)/, /?f?dl?(?)/

Noun

fiddler (plural fiddlers)

1. One who plays the fiddle.
2. One who fiddles.
   • 2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, [1])

     We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.

3. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
4. The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
5. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

Synonyms

• fiddlist, fiddleist (both dated)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Friddle