Green’s Dictionary of Slang

drunk; thus unfoxed, sober.

1611		L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: That’s all the fault Old Iustces haue, where they are at feasts, They will bib hard, they will be fine Sun-burnt, Sufficent, foxt, or Columberd now and than.
1620		T. May Heir I i: I was wont to serve my mother’s maids so, when I came in half foxed.
1622		J. Taylor ‘Farewell to the Tower-bottles’ in Works (1869) II 125: Yet alwayes ’twas my chance in Bacchus spight, / To come into the Tower unfox’d upright.
1630		J. Taylor Epigrams in Works (1869) II 264: Strait staggers by a Porter or a Carman, / As bumsie as a fox’d flapdragon German.
c.1640		J. Shirley Captain Underwit IV i: Then to bee fox’d it is no crime, Since thickest and dull braines It makes sublime.
1654		Witts Recreations Epigram No. 584: Fucus was fox’d last night, but ’tis conceal’d, And would not for his Office ’twere reveal’d.
c.1663		‘A Merry Dialogue’ in Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1878) I 458: The Doctor being deeply foxifi’d, / As he along the Road did chance to ride.
1669		Life and death of Damaris Page 4: There many a Seaman hath sat with his Doxy / And spent his Coyn till he grew Foxy, Poxy.
1673		T. Shadwell Epsom Wells IV i: But here’s my Cup. Come on, Udsooks I begin to be fox’t.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) n.p.: No man ought to call a Good-fellow a Drunkard; but [...] he may without a forfeit say he is foxt.
1691		‘Drunk with Love’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 237: And though I cannot drink all up / Yet I am Fox’d with kissing of the Cup.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Fox’d, Drunk.
1709		A Society of Ladies Female Tatler (1992) LXXV 146: They all got foxed.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1738		Poor Robin n.p.: Or have their throats with brandy drench’d, / Which makes men fox’d e’er thirst is quench’d.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions .
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1853		Ohio Organ (Cincinnati, OH) 28 Jan. 13/2: Dr Franklin speaking of the intemperate drinker says [...] he may be boozy, cozy, foxed [...] groatable [...] may see two moons [...] pretty well entered, but never drunk.
1898		Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 93: Foxed as the reveller was, there was still a deal of philosophy about him.
1900		Sporting Times 3 Mar. 2/5: At 3.30 a.m., after a most successful day’s frenzy-hunting, I went homewards well nigh foxed, as Pepys would have said.
1923		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 7 Oct. [synd. col.] Saw two ladies flung from horses in the mud, but neither hurt and laughed as though foxed with drink.
1928		M. Prenner ‘Sl. Synonyms for ‘Drunk’’ in AS IV:2 102: basted, blind, blotto, boiled, boozed, bunned, canned, cockeyed, elevated, foxed.
1931		A. Hardin ‘Volstead Eng.’ in AS VII:2 88: Terms referring to the state of intoxication: [...] Verbs: Foxed.
1981		M. Keane Good Behaviour 230: I didn’t want everybody to realize he was what Papa calls a bit foxed.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 153: To be foxed is to be drunk.