Folklore: How do you say drunk?

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: gnomad
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 02:07 PM

Having drink taken
Walking both sides of the road
Drunk, and refusing to fight
Out of one's tree
Well lubricated

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Fifer
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 01:56 PM

slittered, his lights are on but there's nobody there bokin' fu'

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 01:30 PM

Totally townhalled (from the german!)

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:54 AM

When Eli's drained her final jar,
You'll find her clinging to the bar,
With wheel adrift, sheets to the wind,
She'll need a tow back home ag'in...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: allanwill
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 08:20 AM

An Australian variant of the song "Seven Drunken Nights" is called something like "Shickered As I Could Be". Haven't played it in a while, so I must dig it out and post it.

Allan

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: DMcG
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 05:49 AM

Killen and Handle, on "Along the Coaly Tyne" have a song with the chorus

An' I'm stottin' alang the wall,
I'll be stottin' alang the wall:
A Friday night is never quite complete
Unless I get me sup, and I'm feelin' me way alang home
By stottin' down the ropeworks wall.


(I limit my attempts to represent the accent!)

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 05:45 AM

I once heard Diz Disley say
"Just a drop to steady myself. Sometimes I get so steady - I can't move.)

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Declan
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 05:28 AM

Many of the above, scuttered is one of my favourites.

In Dublin you are likely to get :

Locked
Locked Stupid
Gee-eyed (with a hard G)
langered (or langerooed)
Well oiled
Gargled
Out of your (something)
       Box and Tree are favourite ones. Have heard gourd as well.
Off your trolley
Fluthered
sozzled
soussed
Zonked

On the way to getting there you can be on the ...
Razz
Piss
Soup
Ran-tan
gargle
skite
Tear
Rip
Lash

Lots of Gaelic ones as well including
Ólta
Ar Meisce
Maith go leoir (literally good enough)

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: aussiebloke
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 03:53 AM

Not a description of being drunk itself, but a resulting behaviour. A phrase that herself came out with one night when we were dining 'al fresco' (ie on the footpath), and an obviously the worse for wear chap staggered past us making more progress in a side to side direction that forwards...

"He's taking the long walk home."

Cheers all

aussiebloke

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: reggie miles
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:37 PM

BTW thanks to whomever was clever enough to recast the prefix of this thread from what I had originally thought it must be "BS" to Folklore and fixing my sloppy >br> mistake. I'm not sure how this relates to folklore but it certainly adds an air legitimacy to the question. I simply wondered about the local slang or common examples of the term in various places where we are all from. There seems to be plenty of expressions out there for this condition. I have no doubt there are a great many more to be shared.

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 06:59 PM

Half seas over
Burning with a low blue flame
Seeing double & feeling single
.
.
.
He is not drunk who from the floor
Can rise again and drink some more,
But he is drunk who prostrate lies
And cannot drink and cannot rise.

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 05:03 PM

"has the blind staggers"

"You're so drunk, I can barely see you"

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 04:32 PM

Bushed

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 02:07 PM

Slightly the worse for wear

Wiped out

Wizzed

Had a sniff of the barmaid's apron (usually of a youngster)

LFF

Subject: RE: Folklore: How do you say drunk?
From: Merritt
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:41 PM

Get sedated

The Hendrix-inspired phrase, "Excuse me while I kiss the floor."

Half-past quarter-after five-of...

- Merritt

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: DG&D Dave
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:26 AM

From a German dance team:
Dunken Blau.
I believe that this means Drunk Blue?
Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:22 AM

Gutter camping
Fleuthered

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:12 AM

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:08 AM

Grass-grabbin drunk!! Ha! I never heard that one before. I like it!

I had a friend once tell me about a party we had both attended, where I proceeded to get extremely grass-grabbin-drunk on tasty Spanish sherry - "I remember you enjoying yourself."

According to most of my friends, the best way to describe me as drunk, is "giggly."

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:38 AM

Slaughtered
Lashed
no bones in yer legs
Stewed
Discomboobulated
Vertically challended
Away with the fairies
Steaming

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:36 AM

Kicking up Bob's-a-dying

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: JudeL
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:23 AM

GNU: you're said to be "talking to god", not because he/she is the only one who can understand you but because you keep saying "Oh god, Oh god" , another phrase that comes to mind is "talking to Huwie and Ralph on the great white telephone" but both the "Oh god" and the "Huwie and Ralph" more usually come later when "hugging the porcelain" and "producing diced carrots"

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:21 AM

Snockered.
Alcoholicly impaired.
Cop-kickin' drunk. (a Kentuckyism)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: The Walrus
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:21 AM

Zig-zag
Catsood
"Having drink taken" (from the old court phrase "Not drunk, but, having drink taken, the accused did...")
Counting the cobbles/kirbstones (flat on one's face in the gutter)
"Not as think as some drunkle peep I am"
"Under the affluence of incerhol"
Rat faced, Rat arsed or (just ratted)
Pissed as a fart/rat/pudden (pudden not pudding)
Elephant's (Elephant's trunk - drunk)
Brahms (Brahmns & Lisdt - Pissed)
Elephant's and Mozart (parody of the above two)
Foggy
"Star shaped drunk" (from the habit of falling over backward, arms and legs spread, when intoxicated)
or one I've only ever heard once (but it amused at the time) -
"A bit sea-sick" (we were miles in-land at the time).

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:14 AM

There are also the important four stages of drunkeness as commemorated in the Nova Scotian song "Jocose Drunkard" which I once posted in a previous thread digression:

Jocose
Morose
Bellicose
Comatose

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,davetnova
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:00 AM

guttered.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,Talking not boozing YUK!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 07:01 AM

Shit faced
pole axed

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,Talking not boozing YUK!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 06:58 AM

two sheets to the wind
tipsy
away with the faries
Blotto
Heaving
out for the count

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 06:51 AM

S/he was inspecting the carpets.
S/he was talking on the great white telephone.
S/he was talking to God... cause S/He was the only one who could understand her/him.
Pie eyed. Tossed (in reference to tossing one's cookies).

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 06:39 AM

Did not our former Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, once declare that our economy had achieved an economic miracle. He later admitted that he had done so after what he described as "a good lunch"? I think that the next time I come home at three, stagger through the front door and miss the target in the bathroom, I shall explain to the rest of the family that I have "had a good lunch".

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 06:26 AM

higher than a kite
drunk as a skunk
loaded

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,Talking not boozing YUK!!!!!
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 05:32 AM

Arent we wasting good drinking time on this most fascinating of subjects ????????

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 05:29 AM

I would tactfully suggest that a persons thirst may be over-slaked.

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 05:04 AM

Folklore or not, I once read that the English language has more euphamisms for a state of intoxication than it has for anything else (body parts, intercourse or whatever)

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Schantieman
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 04:57 AM

Like that one, Jeanie.

How about 'tired and emotional' which used to be the (UK) parliamentary euphemism?

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Jeanie
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 04:25 AM

Under the affluence of incahol

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 04:16 AM

As urinated as a small amphibious reptile.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 03:56 AM

ratarsed

In conference (at work!)

RtS
(I've been thrown out of better pubs than this)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: open mike
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 03:08 AM

i tend to be a bit worried about those with the longest lists!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:21 AM

"So goodnight, drive carefully if you're going far,
Mine's a pint and two white wines,
See you in the bar,
And a treble gin and tonic,
So we'll soon be catatonic,
So... nighty nighty ev'ryone
Ni....ght ni....ght!"

(from "Nighty Nighty Ev'ryone" by Dillie Keane and Adele A.)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: John P
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:03 AM

woofled
about gone
belted
foxed
have a load on
grogged
impixlocated
zig-zagged
tanglefooted
salted
tight as a drum
limp
ossified
pickled
pasted
swazzled
tossed
queer
seeing snakes
slathered
likkered up
muddled
parboiled
dead to the world
hooted
glazed
afloat
blindo
ginned up
embalmed
rosy about the gills
slushed
speechless
mizzled
inspired
scammered
wobbly
foggy
sap happy
oiled
bibacious
dithered

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 11:44 PM

Mowldy,
Footless,
In Bits,
In Bootlaces,
Bokin'
Ossified,
Arsified,
Vino Collapso (look! an ablative absolute!)

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 11:19 PM

Thank goodness for Lord Buckley.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 11:13 PM

Snot-slinging drunk
Knee-walking drunk
Comode-hugging drunk

At outdoor music festivals, you may substitute "tree-hugging" for "comode-hugging".

BTW, it is entirely possible to be all of the above at once, in which case one is "snot-slinging, knee-walking, comode-hugging drunk".

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Chip2447
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 10:56 PM

four thirds (insert any from the above lists here)
blottoed
Lit up
F**KERED UP
wasted
hammered
wrecked

Chip2447?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: khandu
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 10:32 PM

Grass-grabbing drunk (when you lie down and grab the grass to keep from being slung off the Earth)

Ass-slapping drunk (self-explanatory; lots of fun but has its dangers !)

Mudcatatonic- double meaning; (1) the drink(s) one enjoys while Mudcatting. (2) The state one gets in from Mudcatting too long while enjoying too many number (1)s.

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 10:16 PM

Olivered (From the rhyming slang Oliver Twist = Pissed)
three parts Olivered
Newted
Had one over the eight
Tiddly
Happy
Merry
Tipsy
Besotted
Shit faced

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Kinda reminds me of a skit that Frankie Howerd did on Up Pompei.

He says " I got Rotten in Rome, Sloshed in Syracuse and I won't say what I did in Pisa."

A little later he says "I got Plastered in Paris as well" Only he could get away with two jokes in one.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: reggie miles
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 08:54 PM

A few more come to mind.

soused
seeing double
feelin' it
soaked
liquored up
fallin' down
sodden

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 08:06 PM

"And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk, when the old Dun Cow burnt down"

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 07:56 PM

Getting mortal
Had a few shcoops
totalled
polluted
toasted
pished to the gills
done in
zoo'd
lorded up
promoted to Captain Incoherent
marinated