Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Irish/Scot.) drunken, drunken.

1929		L. O’Flaherty House of Gold n.p.: ‘He’s stocious.’ ‘Give ’im de bird, quick,’ said the driver. ‘Let’s get out of here’.
1937		News Chronicle 20 Feb. 8/6: Slang also appeals to our elementary sense of humour, as when we say of a man who is drunk that he is [...] stotious [OED].
1942		Belfast Teleg. 17 July 3/2: With regard to a man’s condition of drunkenness [...] ‘Was he stocious?’.
1965		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Confessions 80: I got so stocious that I had to be carried back to my cell.
1974		Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
1977		Guardian 29 Aug. 4/5: The language of drink is vivid in Scotland. ‘Blitzed,’ ‘miraculous,’ ‘bevvied up,’ ‘stotious’.
1983		T. Paulin ‘Martello’ in Liberty Tree 49: Cack-handed, like a stocious mason, / Napper Tandy picks at this coast.
1991		B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 74: Of course it was an accident. He was probably stocious when he came in.
1992		Guardian 22 Feb. 31/4: Some fellas just want to have a good blub so they get stoshious.
1996		Observer 28 Apr. 119/3: Bevvied, steaming, stotious and wellied — refer to various stages of inebriation.
2005		P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 5: 00:12:28 Residents’ Bar, Berkeley Court, Seriously Stocious.
2007		Eve. Herald (Dublin) 21 Mar. 26/4: A shoplifter [...] said he had no mmory of stealing from an upmarket store as he had been ‘stocious drunk’.
2009		Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 1 Nov. 29/1: You can’t hold a good Scotsman back when he wants to get [...] buckled, fou, guttered, [...] mortal, pie-eyed [...] plastered [...] steaming, stocious or wrecked.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 255: He was mouldy one night [...] Fucking stocious, like, the sentences weren’t coming out right at all.