blackard

Much of his childhood, however, was passed at the 'Anchor' public house, Rawcliffe, kept by his paternal grandmother, where he early became an adept swearer and a lover of the pot, and for upwards of forty years -- to use his own language -- he was 'a drunken blackard. '

The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe Henry Woodcock