Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) bewildered, confused, excited; thus n. obfusticativeness, confusion.

1834		Sun (N.Y.) 5 June 2/3: The Colonel on the result becoming known swore ‘he’d be te-to-natiously obfusticated if he would take the office on any condition’ [DA].
c.1844		R.H. Collyer Amer. Life 4: I see, Doctor, you are a little obfusticated [DA].
1849		Hants Advertiser 19 May 5/5: What appears to our obfusticated ideas the signs of death [...] may only be [etc.].
1851		Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 Jan. 2/7: Hernnessy pleaded obfusticativeness, but this availed him not.
1863		Worcester Jrnl 4 July 5/3: The member for Sheffield [...] appears to have been so dazzled by his visit to the Tuileries as to have had his characteristically sharp faculties completely obfusticated.
1871		Republican Rev. 6 May 1/2: [We] speak of things and events as we find them, without dealing in far fetched theories and other ‘obfusticated’ nonsense [DA].
1872		Dundee Courier 11 July 3/5: All the missuses and masters, / Utterly obfusticated / Went and gone and emigrated!
1876		Sheffield Indep. 23 Dec. 15/3: A fair recollection of the affair came over Dick’s drink-obfusticated memory.
1880		Dover Exp. 1 June 3/4: Why, I dunno where I be, I’m so obfusticated.
1890		Derby Dly Teleg. 24 Mar. 4/3: I gave it all up and refused to believe anything at all [...] we suffered ourselves to be thus ‘obfusticated’.
1901		Shields Dly Gaz. 30 Apr. 2/5: The Daily News, like some other London newspapers, is becoming slightly obfusticated over the coal tax.
1909		L.W. Payne Jr ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:v 353: obfusticated, adj. Excited, flustrated. Facetious.
1927		Cornishman 19 Oct. 4/2: They are the only recruits who are ‘in step;’ the rest of the regiment are mentally chaotic and ‘obfusticated’.

2. drunk.

1838		Freeman’s Jrnl 26 Oct. 3/5: Prisoner— Not a bit drunk, your honour, any more than I am now (He was now regularly obfusticated). I’m not a bit drunk.
1848		North-Carolinan (Fayetteville, NC) 18 Nov. 1/6: Drunk [...]obfusticated, laid out, has a load on.
1859		Liverpool Mercury 3 Feb. 3/8: A knight of the thimble [...] was ‘out, enjoying himself,’ one result of that enjoyment being that he got ‘obfusticated’ by beer.
1869		Bristol Mercury 23 Jan. 6/3: A Scotch Minister [...] went into his pulpit in the olden time slightly obfusticated.
1873		Birmingham Dly Post 29 Nov. 5/1: Edward Brown [...] had got so thoroughly drunk as to be [...] ‘sewn up’ [...] so obfusticated that he could not give any account of himself.
c.1900		Little Tich ‘The Girl got Off at Clapham’ 🎵 He had so many parting drinks that he got obfusticated.