Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated. Other adjectives for drunk were: buffy, dead-oh, half-shot, lushy, scammered (like hammered), shicker, sozzled, squiffed, squiffy, squizzed, and tanked. If you looked awful on top of getting drunk, you might be described as 'shickery.
Given that alcohol is pretty good at making people act in confusing or mystifying ways, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that in the 1800's bamboozle began to be used as slang for "drunk."
Way back when English was Old English, between AD 600 and 1100, you were either “drunken” or “fordrunken” (very drunk) after a night of carousing. Even today, “drunken” will do for describing how you may be spending New Year's Eve. But you might also be “blinkered,” “oiled” or “lit.”
Off One's Chump: To be crazy is to be off one's chump; this is varied by the word “chumpy.” A mild kind of lunatic is also said to be “off his head,” which means of course exactly the same as the first phrase.
On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drunk, such as: stoned, tipsy, bashed, befuddled, buzzed, and crocked.
Lunatic was commonly used from the 16th to the 18th centuries in England. It was derived from the Roman moon goddess luna. The moon was believed to lead to mental instability in ancient Rome. Although it is similar to madness, it originally meant cyclical insanity rather than chronic insanity.
Other Victorian terms for breasts: bubbies, coker-nuts.
Nanty Narking
Used to express that you're having a lot of fun. But almost too much fun. The word "nanty" is thought to be derived from the Welsh word "nant", which means "stream" or "brook", while "narking" is a slang term that means "annoying" or "irritating".
He's bombed. He's three sheets to the wind. He's plastered. He's as drunk as a skunk.
Use tipsy to describe a person who's just slightly drunk. If you've ever been to a wedding reception, you've probably seen a tipsy person. Your aunt who gets a little tipsy on New Year's Eve might giggle more than usual, for example.
'Had a jag. ' 'Had a load. '
Turnt and turnt up begin as a slang term in African-American English meaning “excited,” “adrenalized,” or “intoxicated,” as the online hip-hop dictionary the Right Rhymes defines it. The term, though especially associated with drugs, alcohol, and sex at a crazy party, has broadened to mean “a state of being wild.”
People typically got hooch or giggle water – alcohol– from a barrel house or gin mill, which were distribution places, and maybe kept it in their hipflask (which is pretty self-explanatory).
Undervests of coloured washable silk with shaped gussets for the breasts were worn by 1875, and knickers made of flannel, similar to men's knickerbockers, might occasionally replace drawers in the 1890s.
A woman's cleavage is the space between her breasts, especially the top part which you see if she is wearing a dress with a low neck. 2. countable noun. A cleavage between two people or things is a division or disagreement between them.
Doss – A resting place, a bed; doss-ken, a tramp's lodging house …
But "fuck" wasn't actually a swear-word back then. It was indecent, of course, but people only used it for the sexual act itself.
By 1815, the hospital had moved to Lambeth, London. By 1852 synonyms included: madman, lunatic, bedlamite; dreamer, rhapsodist, enthusiast; fanatic, idiot, knight errant; mash, mess, muddle; tangled skein, knot, Babel, ferment, turmoil. Mad-doctor: Lat. insanus, a specialist carer of the insane, the mad.
Words for “drunk”:
legless. off one's face. maggot (really drunk) pissed.
Common slang terms for people who abuse alcohol include: alcoholic. alchie/alkey/alkie. bacchanalian. barfly.