fuddling

noun — 2 senses

fuddling

noun

1

Synonym of drunkenness, intoxication from alcohol.

2

Synonym of alcohol, an intoxicant.

...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.c. 1651, "A Briefe Description of the Island of Barbados" in Trinity College MS G4, p. 15]

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