or screwy, adj. (common).—Drunk; TIGHT (q.v.).
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—[Further lists will be found under DRINKS, DRUNK, D.T.’S, GALLON-DISTEMPER, LUSH, LUSH-CRIB, and LUSHINGTON.] To be afflicted, afloat, alecied, all at sea, all mops-and-brooms, in one’s armour, in one’s altitudes, at rest, Bacchi plenus, battered, be-argered, beery, bemused, a bit on, blind, bloated, blowed, blued, boozed, bosky, a brewer, bright in the eye, bubbed, budgy, buffy, bung-eyed, candy, canon (or cannon), chirping-merry, chucked, clear, clinched, concerned, corked, corkscrewed, corky, corned, crooked, in one’s cups, cup-shot, cut, dagged, damaged, dead-oh! disguised, disorderly, doing the Lord (or Emperor), done over, down (with barrel-fever: see GALLON-DISTEMPER), dull in the eye, full of Dutch-courage, electrified, elephant’s-trunk (rhyming slang), elevated, exalted, far gone, feeling funny (or right royal), fettled (or in good fettle), fighting-tight (or drunk), flawed, floored, fluffed, flummoxed, flushed, flustered, flustrated, flying-high, fly-blown, fogged (or foggy), fou (Scots’), on fourth, foxed, fresh, fuddled, full, full-flavoured, full to the bung, fuzzy, gay, gilded, glorious, grape-shot, gravelled, greetin’-fou’, groggy, hanced, half-seas-over, happy, hard-up, hazy, heady, hearty, helpless, hiccius-doccius, hickey, high, hockey, hoodman, in a difficulty (see GALLON-DISTEMPER), incog, inspired, jagged, jolly, jug-bitten, kennurd (back slang = drunk), all keyhole, kisk, knocked-up, leary, lion drunk, in Liquor-pond Street-loaded, looking lively, lumpy, lushy, making indentures with one’s legs, malted, martin-drunk, mashed, mellow, miraculous, mixed, moony, mopped, moppy, mortal, muckibus, muddled, mugged, muggy, muzzy, nappy, nase (or nazy), noddy-headed, noggy, obfuscated, oddish, off (off at the nail, or one’s nut), on (also on the bend, beer, batter, fuddle, muddle, sentry, skyte, spree, etc.: see FLARE-UP and FLOORED), out (also out of funds, register, altitudes, &c.), overcome, overseen, overshot, over-sparred, overtaken, over the bay, palatic, paralysed, peckish, a peg too low, pepst, pickled, piper-drunk (or -merry), ploughed, poddy, podgy, potted-off, pot-shot, pot-sick, pot-valiant, primed, pruned, pushed, queered, quick-tempered, raddled, rammaged, ramping-mad, rather touched, rattled, reeling (or tumbling), ripe, roaring, rocky, salubrious, scammered, scooped, sewn up, shaky, three (or four) sheets in the wind, shot, shot in the neck, slewed, smeekit, smelling of the cork, snapped, snuffy, snug, so, soaked, sow-drunk, spiffed, spoony-drunk, spreeish, sprung, squiffed (or squiffy), stale-drunk, starchy, swattled, swiggled, swilled, swinnied, swine-drunk, swiped (or swipey), swivelly, swizzled, taking it easy, tangle-footed, tap-shackled, taverned (also hit on the head by a tavern bitch, or to have swallowed a tavern token), teeth under, thirsty, tight, tipsy, top-heavy, topsy-boosy, tosticated, under the influence, up a tree, up in one’s hat, waving a flag of defiance, wet, wet-handed, what-nosed, whipcat (FLORIO), whittled, winey, yappish (yaupy or yappy). Also, TO HAVE a guest in the attic, the back teeth well afloat, a piece of bread and cheese in the head, drunk more than one has bled, the sun in one’s eyes, a touch of boskiness, a cup too much, a brick in the hat, a drop in the eye, got the flavour, a full cargo aboard, a jag on, a cut leg, the malt above the wheat, one’s nuff, one’s soul in soak, yellow fever. Also, to have been barring too much, bitten by a barn mouse, driving the brewer’s horse, biting one’s name in, dipping rather deep, making M’s and T’s, paid, painting the town red, shaking a cloth in the wind. Also, to wear a barley cap, to cop the brewer, to let the finger ride the thumb, to lap the gutter, to need a reef taken in, to see the devil, to take a shard (or shourd), to shoe the goose, to see one apiece.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—S’allumer; s’attendrir; attraper un allumette rond, un coup de sirop, or une maculature; AVOIR son affaire, son allumette (son allumette ronde, de campagne, or de marchand de vin), une barbe, son caillon, un coup de bleu (de bouteille, chasselas, fard, feu, feu de société, picton, sirop, or soleil), son casque, sa chique, sa cocarde, son compte, sa cuite, une culotte, de gaz, un grain (or petit grain), son jeune homme, le mal Saint-Martin, le nez sale (or nez dechien), le panache, son paquet, sa pente, sa pistache, son plein, son plumet, sa pointe, son pompon, son poteau (or poteau télégraphique), du roulis, un sabre, le sac plein, or son toquel; avoir fumé un pipe neuve; EN AVOIR jusqu’à la troisième capucin, une charretée, une vraie muffée, plein son sac, or dans le toquet; battre la muraille; se cardinaliser; charmer les puces; se cingler le blair; se coaguler; se cocarder; se coller un coup de jus, or une biture; se culotter de la tête aux pieds; écraser un grain; s’embrouillarder; s’émécher; s’émérillonner; s’entuminer; s’empaffer; s’empoivrer; ETRE absinthé, allumé, asphyxié, bamboche, bien (or bien pensé), un brin en riole, dans les brindezingues, dans le brouillard, dans les broussilles, bu, casquette, chargé, en chérance, cinglé, complet, dessous, en drive, éméché, emu, dans un état voisin, fadé (or bien fadé), fier, gai, gavé, gris a’officier, humecté, lancé, en liche, louave, machabé, monté, mouillé, paf (or paf jusqu’à la troisième), dans (or de) la paroisse de Saint-Jean le Rond, parti (or parti pour la gloire), en patrouille, pavois, pion, plein (or plein comme un œuf, un sac), plombé pochard, poche, poivre, poussé raide (or raide comme la justice), riche, rond (or ronde comme une balle, une bourrique, une bourrique à Robespierre, or une boule), saoul comme un âne (un hanneton, une grive, un Polonais, or trente milles hommes), slasse (or slaze), teinté, dans la terrine, en train, dans les vignes (or la vigne) du Seigneur, and vent dessus-dessous (or dedans); faire cracher ses soupapes; se farder; fêter la Saint-Lundi; se flanquer un coup d’arrosoir (une cuite, une Culotte, or une fameuse pétée); se foncer; se grimer; se grisotter; mettre son nez dans le bleu; se mettre en dedans; se mouiller; se paffer; se payer; se pincer (or se pincer un coup de sirop or le tasseau); se piquer le nez (le tasseau, or le tube); se pocharder; se poisser; se poivrotter; se pommader; prendre son allumette de campagne (or une barbe); ramponner; se salir le nez; schniquer; se schlosser; se sculpter une guende de bois; slasser; se tinter; ne pas trouver son niveau; voir en dedans.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Witches’ Frolic.’
| Like a four-bottle man in a company ‘SCREW’D,’ | |
| Not firm on his legs, but by no means subdued. |
1841. Punch, i. 278. We had a great night in London before I started, only I got rascally SCREWED: not exactly sewed up, you know, but hit under the wing, so that I could not well fly.
1843. DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxv. She was only a little SCREWED.
1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh, 133. If any of our party were in the condition expressed by the mysterious word SCREWED, it certainly was Lawless himself.
1855. THACKERAY, The Newcomes, xlvii. Blest if I didn’t nearly drive her into a wegetable cart. I was so uncommon SCRUEY!
1871. All the Year Round, 18 Feb., 288. Awfully SCREWED. Been keeping it up with a fast lot at Gypsum.
1895. Reynolds, 18 Aug., 4, 7. A witness suggested that the prisoners were too drunk to know what they were doing. Mr. Gray: No. We admit being a little bit SCREWED, but we were not so bad as all that.
