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Ben Franklin’s 200+ Synonyms for “Drunk”

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Ben Franklin turned 305 today! To celebrate, here’s a list of expressions meaning “inebriated” that Franklin first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette on January 6, 1737.

The Drinkers Dictionary

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.

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With the week of birthday awesomeness approaching, I’m hoping we can use as many of these phrases as possible.  Some of them will be very classy during restaurant week.

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    I challenge you all to try to use at least one of these everyday!
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    Thanks, Ben…I’ll sound very intelligent (or crazy)...next time I’m around who “has
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    over 200 dictionary words, slang definitions and phrases synonymous with being intoxicated
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    I’ll bet he was as good conditioned as a puppy when he came up with these.. genius!
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    “He’s been too free with the Creature and Been too free with Sir John Strawberry” sound rather dirty to me. How dare you...
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    Some of these like “His Flag is out”, “Rais’d his Monuments”,...all his Studding Sails...
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