Green’s Dictionary of Slang

disguised adj.

drunk.

1622		Massinger Virgin-Martyr III iii: harp.: I am a prince disguised. hir.: Disguised! how? drunk!
1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 76: If perchance hee bee three or foure houres abroad drinking in company, and come home a little disguised, then you fall about his eares, and rail at him.
1663		Dryden Wild Gallant I i: I had too much of that [ale] last night; I was a little disguised, as they say.
1678		J. Ray Proverbs (2nd edn) 87: Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk. He’s disguised.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1704		R. Steele Lying Lover IV i: You are a little disguis’d in Drink tho’ Mr. John .
1714		Spectator 5 Nov. n.p.: I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidions about a sneaker of five gallons. The whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
1729		Hell upon Earth 13: A Noble Lord, greatly disguised in Wine.
1737		B. Franklin ‘Drinkers Dictionary’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK. [...] He’s Disguiz’d.
1765		Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies 18: [She is] very mettlesome and spirited after the second bottle; though we would not [...] mean that she is ever disguised with liquor.
1773		O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act IV: A damned up and down hand, as if it was disguised in liquor.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1794		Sporting Mag. July IV 216/2: Any one who comes into the club room disguised in liquor [...] shall forfeit two-pence.
1804		C.L. Lewes Comic Sketches 27: While others would say he [was], ‘Very much disguis'd — Clipp'd the King's English —Quite happy — Bosky—Fuddled — Muddled — Tipsy — Dizzy — Muzzy — Sucky’.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1822		Times 11 Sept. 3/4: Having declared that she had been ‘disguised’ the day before [she said] she had no recollection of the vengeance she had taken.
1834		Marryat Peter Simple (1911) 8: He is disguised with liquor.
1844		Stirling Obs. 19 Sept. 3/3: [from US press] Drunkeness Defined — [...] high-corned, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, [...] smashed, [...] snubbed, [...] battered [...] soaked, [...] bruised.
a.1856		Burlington Sentinel in Hall (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] disguised.
1859		G.A. Sala Gaslight and Daylight 45: The Lord Chancellor [...] ‘disguised in liquor’ after a dinner at the Guildhall, was kidnapped by a press-gang.
1859		Bell’s Life in Sydney 3 Dec. 3/4: Disguised in liquor; a bit in the sunshine; sprung; can see a hole through a ladder; muzzy.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 56: The mounted company of Astley’s, disguised in liquor every way.
1884		W.C. Russell Jack’s Courtship I 314: I met a third mate I knew, slightly disguised in liquor.
1898		W. Besant Orange Girl I 249: You are a little disguised in liquor.
1898		J. Fox Jr ‘Courtin’ on Cutshin’ in Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories n.p.: Abe Shivers had got Jeb a leetle disguised by liquer.
1900		Sporting Times 20 Jan. 1/4: He was undoubtedly disguised in liquor.
a.1909		press cutting in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 109/2: Most of Bob Prudhoe’s customers are noblemen disguised – in liquor.
1909		Bee (Earlington, KY) 29 Apr. 7/1: The disguised individual can’t see a hole in a ladder.
1926		Derby Dly Teleg. 9 Jan. 2/4: The tests [will] enable magistrates to deal with a well-defined accusation such as [...] raddled [...] lushy [...] obfuscated [...] disguised, groggy.