blithered adj.
(Aus.) very drunk.
Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Oct. 14/2: Who ever hears [...] of a man being ‘drunk’? [...] The staid and dignified citizen will say he is ‘intoxicated’ [...] the average boy that he is ‘shickered,’ ‘blithered’ or ‘tonicked.’. | ||
Backblock Ballads 59: Who fades and wilts an’ calls for nurse, / To hear a blithered soldier’s curse. | ‘Sore Throat’ in||
(con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: blithered. Drunk. | ||
Narromine News (NSW) 22 July 6/3: He was full right up to the neck. He was so beautifully blithered that he wanted to fight a 15-stone Constable O’Groogy. | ||
These Are My People (1957) 72: We [...] gets a sky pilot, but he’s late and we’re all blithered when he turns up. | ||
I’m a Jack, All Right 42: The only times any customers have been prepared to get stuck with them coloured needles has been when they are completely blithered. | ||
Aussie Swearers Guide 52: Non-Aussies are sometimes surprised to hear that rotten is basic Australian for ‘drunk’. There is also a whole boozey flood of alternatives available, among them blithered, full as a goog, half-cut, molo and snockered. | ||
Lily on the Dustbin 185: Several successive women instanced well-known general slang terms for drunkenness: ‘High as a kite’, ‘full as a boot’, ‘blithered’ and so on. | ||
Lingo 134: The effects of our occasionally over-enthusiastic imbibing show a great variety of invention and colour, including: [...] the now, sadly, abandoned blithered. |