Green’s Dictionary of Slang

kanurd adj.

drunk.

1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 127: kennurd, drunk.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 23/2: Flatch kanurd ... Half-drunk.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 11: Kennurd - Drunk.
1889–90		Barrère & Leland Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant I 516/2: Kennurd (back slang), drunk.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues 93/1: Kennurd, adj. (back slang). – Drunk.
1935		R.T. Hopkins Life and Death at the Old Bailey 64: ‘Canned,’ meaning that a person is overcome with liquor, is the word drunk spelt backward, thus – kanurd.