Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Scot.) very drunk.

1873		Fife Herald 10 July 2/2: ‘I never saw the man as I may say “miraklous” drunk’ [...] ‘Did you ever see him commonly drunk as opposed to miraculous?’.
1883		Dundee Courier 4 May 2/5: Prisoner alleged that on the night [...] his wife was ‘miraculous’ drunk [...] and struck him on the head.
1892		Stamford Mercury 30 Dec. 5/7: the defendant said that complainant was ‘miraculous drunk’.
1898		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Jan. 2/8: Came Home ‘Miraculous’ [...] as Mrs Furlong put it, ‘he came back miraculous drunk’.
1904		Eve. Post 3 Feb. 4/4: ‘Was he the worse for drink?’ the Bailie inquiored [...] ‘Oh he was miraculous drunk’.
1939		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 16 Jan. 7/2: His wife was in the house ‘miraculous drunk’.
1977		Guardian 29 Aug. 4/5: The language of drink is vivid in Scotland. ‘Blitzed,’ ‘miraculous,’ ‘bevvied up,’ ‘stotious’.
1985		M. Munro Patter 44: miraculous Usually, who knows why, pronounced ‘marockyoolus’, this is a slang term for drunk. ‘Maroc’ is sometimes heard as a shortened form [...] ‘Ah seen him stotin roon George Square, pur maroc he wis!’.