3rdgensooner
12/15/2010, 05:26 PM
Ben Franklin’s 200+ Synonyms for “Drunk” (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/76919)
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Yesterday we ran a quiz titled “Monty Python Phrase or Ben Franklin Synonym for Drunk?” (http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=1128&p=1) The quiz referred to Franklin’s lengthy list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that he first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.
People must be tired of using the same old terms when describing their wasted friends, because we’ve received a number of requests for Franklin’s entire list. And that’s what we’re here for! So here’s The Drinkers Dictionary. If you know any new phrases you’d like to add, leave them in the comments.
A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.
C
He’s Cat,
Cagrin’d,
Capable,
Cramp’d,
Cherubimical,
Cherry Merry,
Wamble Crop’d,
Crack’d,
Concern’d,
Half Way to Concord,
Has taken a Chirriping-Glass,
Got Corns in his Head,
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/100-bill.jpg
Yesterday we ran a quiz titled “Monty Python Phrase or Ben Franklin Synonym for Drunk?” (http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=1128&p=1) The quiz referred to Franklin’s lengthy list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that he first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.
People must be tired of using the same old terms when describing their wasted friends, because we’ve received a number of requests for Franklin’s entire list. And that’s what we’re here for! So here’s The Drinkers Dictionary. If you know any new phrases you’d like to add, leave them in the comments.
A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.
C
He’s Cat,
Cagrin’d,
Capable,
Cramp’d,
Cherubimical,
Cherry Merry,
Wamble Crop’d,
Crack’d,
Concern’d,
Half Way to Concord,
Has taken a Chirriping-Glass,
Got Corns in his Head,