hazy adj.
1. tipsy, drunk.
Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 145: Barring the time when one’s a little overhazy [...] I shan’t walk behind e’er a lad of my size [...] in the way of my duty. | ||
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 225: He dashed off his ‘Vicary,’ / Stamped on the jasey / As though he were crazy, / And staggering about just as if he were ‘hazy’. | ‘Lay of St. Cuthbert’ in||
Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For the one word drunk [...] I find [...] screwed, hazy, sewed up. | ‘Slang’ in||
, , | Sl. Dict. | |
Lights & Shadows 724: [E]very effort is made to render the victim hazy with liquor, so that he shall not be able to keep a clear record in his mind of the progress of the [faro] game. | ||
Salt Lake City (UT) 30 Mar. 4/5: He is [...] hazy, foggy. | ||
DN IV:iii 214: hazy, stupid with drink. ‘He walks as though he were slightly hazy.’. | ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in
2. under the influence of a drug.
Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |