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.