comfortable, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

comfortable adj.

(US) a euph. for drunk.

1839		Crim.-Con. Gaz. 9 Feb. 43/3: elements of fuddling 1. Comfortable. 2 Merry. 3. Noisy. 4. Tipsy. 5. Fairly in for’t. 6. Done up. 7. Amorous. 8. Knock’d down. 9. Knock’d up. 10. Finish’d.
1840		R.B. Peake Devil In London III ii: Two bottles of champagne and a pint of brandy have made me comfortable.
1851		Kalida Venture (OH) 11 Apr. 2/4: Drunk [...] comfortable.
1859		G.A. Sala Gaslight and Daylight 126: So many good fellows who had got ‘comfortable’ in my house.
1859		Bell’s Life in Sydney 3 Dec. 3/4: Has had a drop; just comfortable.
1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 323: Three-fifths of them were already pretty comfortable, thanks, with bottles hid away in their knapsacks.
1960, 1975		(ref. to 1950) Wentworth & Flexner DAS.

In compounds

comfortable importance (n.) [play on SE ? + play on cunt n. (1)]

1. a mistress.

1680

Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: She is [...] a Parsons comfortable Importance.

2. sexual intercourse .

1690

‘Teague’ Teagueland Jests I 14: They happened to sit down [...] to entertain themselves with a little private Converse , it was about the business of Comfortable Importance.

3. one’s wife.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Comfortable importance a Wife.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

comfortable impudence (n.) [play on SE and parody of comfortable importance ]

a mistress, esp. when posing as one’s wife.

1937–84

Partridge DSUE (1984) 245/1: late C.17–early 20.