English
fuddlecap
From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.
A compound of fuddle ‘liquor’ + cap ‘head’
Latin caput ‘head’
Late Latin cappa ‘cap, hood, cape’
Proto-West Germanic *kappā ‘covering, hood, mantle’
Old English cæppe ‘cap, hood’
Middle English cappe ‘cap’
English cap
Today it means
noun Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fuddlecap