Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.Henley, William Ernest
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Henley, William Ernest
English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Slang -- Dictionaries
1575. Satirical Poems, etc., Scottish Text Soc. Pub. (1889–90) i.,
208. ‘A Lewd Ballat.’ To se forett the holy frere his fukking so
deplore.
Adj. (common).—A qualification of extreme contumely.
Adv. (common).—Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form of bloody
(q.v.). See Foutering.
Fuckish, adj. (venery).—Wanton; proud (q.v.); inclined for coition.
Fuckster, subs. (venery).—A good performer (q.v.); one specially
addicted to the act. A woman-fucker (Florio), but in feminine
fuckstress.
Fud, subs. (venery).—The pubic hair. For synonyms, see Fleece. Also the
tail of a hare or rabbit.
1785. Burns, The Jolly Beggars. They scarcely left to co’er their
fuds.
Fuddle, subs. (common).—1. Drink. [Wedgwood: A corruption of fuzz.]
1621. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. The university troop dined
with the Earl of Abingdon and came back well fuzzed.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v. fuddle, Drink.
‘This is rum fuddle, c. this is excellent Tipple.’
1705. Ward, Hudibras Redivivus, I., Pt. iv., p. 18. And so, said I,
we sipp’d our fuddle, As women in the straw do caudle, ’Till every
man had drown’d his noddle.
1733. Bailey, Erasmus, p. 125 (ed. 1877). Don’t go away; they have
had their dose of fuddle.
2. (common).—A drunken bout; a drunk.
1864. Glasgow Citizen, 9 Dec. Turner is given to a fuddle at times.
Verb. (colloquial).—To be drunk.
1720. Durfey, Pills, etc., vi., 265. All day he will fuddle.
1754. B. Martin, Eng. Dict. (2nd ed.). To fuddle. 1. To make a
person drunk. 2. To grow drunk.
1770. Foote. Lame Lover, iii. Come, Hob or Nob, Master Circuit—let
us try if we can’t fuddle the serjeant.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, ch. x. He boxed the watch; he fuddled
himself at taverns; he was no better than a Mohock.
1889. Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you may fuddle with Bacchus all night,
And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.
Fuddlecap (or Fuddler), subs. (common).—A drunkard; a boon companion.
For synonyms, see Lushington.
1607. Dekker, Jests to make you Merie, in wks. (Grosart) ii., 299.
And your perfect fuddlecap [is known] by his red nose.
d. 1682. T. Browne, Works, iii., 93. True Protestant fuddlecaps.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, fuddlecap, a drunkard.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.) Fuddlecap (S.) one that loves
tippling, an excessive drinker, or drunkard.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Fuddled, adj. (colloquial).—Stupid with drink. For synonyms, see Drinks
and Screwed.
1661. Pepys, Diary, 8 March After dinner, to drink all the
afternoon ... at last come in Sir William Wale, almost fuddled.
1713. Guardian, No. 145. It was my misfortune to call in at Tom’s
last night, a little fuddled.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 537. The table floating round, And pavement
faithless to the fuddled foot.
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