Comments on: Adam Dant’s Synonyms for Drunkenness https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Martin Palmer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318826 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:10:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318826 He missed the best one: Brahms and Liszt. Equals pissed. Equals drunk.

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318797 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:23:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318797 Shit-faced
Half in the bag
Annihilated

]]> By: Lisa Liss https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318796 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:21:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318796 Being a reader of Pepy’s Diary, I’ve come across his use of the word “foxed” for drunkeness. It occurs more than once!

]]> By: Ron Wilkinson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318755 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:31:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318755 “He’s lip walking” was how I first heard it. 🙂

]]> By: Ron Wilkinson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318754 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:30:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318754 On his or her lips or walking with their lips. Polluted, knee walking, blotto.
Great illustration.

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318752 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:24:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318752 I am impossible at this, since being an American I don’t know the British idiom. But I was delighted with the drawing. Adam Dant’s answer to Hogarth!

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318723 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:37:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318723 Douglas Badered. Or Douglased. (Meaning legless).

]]> By: Aoiidh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318703 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:14:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318703 You don’t use peely wally to describe being drunk, but you might the day after you’re drunk to describe the way you look when you’re hungover! It just means you look pale and unwell, pasty.

]]> By: aubrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318699 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:11:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318699 tight; wasted come to mind.

]]> By: Pennie Limming https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/11/03/adam-dants-synonyms-for-drunkenness/#comment-1318698 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:55:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177615#comment-1318698 Absolutely LOVE it!!!!! Working through the list.

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