Green’s Dictionary of Slang

flatch adj.

[backsl.]

half, usu. in comb. below.

In compounds

flatch-kennurd (adj.) [kennurd adj.; lit. ‘half-drunk’]

tipsy, mildly drunk.

[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
[UK](con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 23/2: Flatch kanurd ... Half-drunk.
[UK]Leeds Times 28 Mar. 6/5: Somebody suggested that Cuttie was probably ‘flatch kennard’ by this time.
[UK] press cutting in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 43/2: When a bloke is flatch kennurd the booze pushers will give him any rot in the house, and that’s very hard lines.