and beery, subs. and adj. (common).—A state of (or approaching to) drunkenness; intoxicated; fuddled with beer: see SCREWED.
1857. DICKENS, Little Dorrit, I., viii., 56. The stranger was left to the … BEERY atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons, and repose.
1861. G. ELIOT, Silas Marner, 67. A BEERY and bungling sort.
1877. D. C. MURRAY, Frighted with False Fire [in Belgravia, July, 73]. There was a BEERY and bloated captain resident in the Inn.
1889. Modern Society, 13 July, 838. ‘Damn’d be he that first cries, Hold, enough,’ which is vulgary translated by the BEERY oracle of the kerbstone, ‘Put yer shirt on ’im, cuffs an’ all.’
