Green’s Dictionary of Slang

grogged adj.

tipsy.

[c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Grogged. a Grogged Horse, a Foundered Horse].
1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 441: With lads and lasses, prim’d and grogg’d for bang-up fun and glee.
1842		Comic Almanack Oct. 331: He stands and listens, sad and dogged, / To ‘fined five bob’ for being grogged.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 12 June 1/1: Having recently got grogged up he was shot in and bailed out for a sovereign.
1931		D. Runyon ‘Dream Street Rose’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 48: She can fight like the dickens when she is grogged up.
1964		P. White Burnt Ones 312: So you had to get into bed with him. Grogged up half the time.
1976		R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 65: He’s grogged to the eyeballs.