Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. mad, crazy.

1922		Sheffield Indep. 6 June 5/3: Holland said, ‘It’s all right, sir, I am puggled.’ A detective informed the magistrate that ‘puggled’ was Hindustani for ‘silly’.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 225: Poggle (also Puggle): (Hind.—Pagal). Mad.
1932		S.B. Hurst ‘Twisted Three’ in Oriental Stories Summer 361/1: When did Ruttan Singh go puggly?
1933		Partridge Words, Words, Words! 202: Poggle(d), puggled, ‘rattled’ as well as eccentric and mad-drunk, is a pre-war Regular-Army word.
1940		Sevenoaks Chron. 19 July 8/1: He was the kind of chap who could be described as ‘slightly puggled’.
1963		C. Wood ‘Spare’ in Cockade (1965) I i: garibaldi: How would you describe him then? [...] dickie bird: Puggled.
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 80: A woman in this bloody dump? You’re going puggle.
1989		(con. 1944–45) B. Aldiss Forgotten Life 76: India was overwhelmed — with humankind. [...] Many of them described themselves as puggle. It was the sun, the heat.
1991		I. Lewis Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs 194/1: puggled, poggled, ‘mad-drunk’, or Anglo-Indian equivalent of ‘round the bend’, ‘off one’s rocker’.
1997		Share Slanguage.

2. drunk.

1933		see sense 1.
1973		(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 112: A petite girl in black, was ‘stoatin’ aw ower the place – pure puggled she wis’.
1991		see sense 1.