Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sodden adj.

drunk.

1890		Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 June 1/4: Flossie Fewclothes [...]: ‘What, you’re not going out again this act, are you?’ The Besoddened One: ‘Well, [...] they'll scarcely bring me a drink in here’.
1893		W. Sickert Westminster Gazette 20 Mar. 7: Much too much has been made of ‘drink,’ and ‘lessons,’ and ‘sodden,’ and ‘boozing’ in relation to the picture by Degas.
1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 3 June 9/3: [from McClure’s Mag.] He remembered a shanty [...] where he had lived with a sodden individual whom he called ‘th’ ol’ man’ .
1929		S. Ornitz Haunch Paunch and Jowl 126: Now this is the sodden hour. The waiters are busy with their own breakfasts [...] It is morning.
1938		Scotsman 23 Mar. 8/6: [headline] Pilot Criticised — Appeared ‘Sodden’ with Drink’.
1945		J.B. Priestly Three Men in New Suits 64: This sodden, pudding-faced tart, old before her time.
1953		J. Thompson Alcoholics (1993) 33: Hopelessly, helplessly drunk. Sodden to the gills.
1965		L. Haylen Big Red 53: Have a look at the sodden bejesused Paddy.
1996		Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 258: I was lecherous, debauched, sodden with booze and dopey with drugs.