Green’s Dictionary of Slang

onkus-paringa adj.

(Aus.) drunk.

1906

Sun. Times (Perth) 2 Sept. 3/2: Wife of a big ‘Australian’ boss bringing retribution on his silvering scalp. Has lately taken to copious, fizz, and while decidedly onkus-paringa, flaunts (hic) around the stage giving imbecilic (hic) kisses to pet chorus girls, whom, when sober, she looks scornfully down on from the eminence of 30-guinea gowns. Meanwhile the discarded other wife awaits the inevitable end in full assurance that she will be amply avenged.