[f. FUDDLE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. FUDDLE.
1665. J. Webb, Stone-Heng (1725), 225. His other Fables, of Electing, Feasting, Fudling, Fulling, they are beneath us.
1670. J. Furly, Test. to True Light, 24. Go not a Fudling, but fear the Lord.
1871. C. Gibbon, Lack of Gold, xxx. The fuddling commenced in earnest as soon as the lamps and candles were lit; and the man who refused to drink until he was roaring fou was regarded as a weary body and unfit for good fellowship.
2. attrib. and Comb., as fuddling-bout, -cap, -liquor, -table, -tent; fuddling-crib, -school, a drinking den.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, V. ix. We went back to have tother *fuddling Bout.
c. 1600. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.), 119.
The *fuddling cap, by Bacchus might, | |
Turns night to day, and day to night. |
1738. Gentl. Mag., VIII. 80. The Parson hath lost his Fuddling-cap.
1856. Househ. Words, XIII. 544. Saunderss *fuddling crib was a double hovel.
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. p. xxix. The common *fuddling Liquor of the more ordinary sort is Rum-Punch, to the composition of which goes Rum, Water, Lime-juice, Sugar, and a little Nutmeg scrapd on the top of it.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect. (1685), 333. The Greeks, who keep *Fudling-Schools for the Mariners, and other meaner sort of the People.
1708. T. Ward, Eng. Ref. (1716), 37. Transformd the Altars into *Fuddling Tables.
16834. Frost of 16834 (Percy), 6. Where ships and barges used to frequent Now may you see a booth or *fuddling tent.