Green’s Dictionary of Slang

snozzled adj.

(US) drunk.

1862		Staffs. Advertiser 1 Nov. 7/4: ‘Never mind my brain. It’s not “snozzled” like yours’.
1921		Chicago Trib. 20 Jan. 9/4: You could walk through the streets of this burg at any time of the night, ‘snozzled’ or sober, without fear of being held up.
1928		J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 153: Well, do you know what time you came in here? Five o’clock. And snozzled. Were you snozzled!
1935		W. Smith Bessie Cotter 179: He’s all right [...] Just a little snozzled.
1936		Mencken Amer. Lang. (4th edn) 568: It is to those days before the Civil War that we owe many of the colorful American terms for [...] drunk, e.g., [...] pie-eyed, plastered, snozzled, stewed, stuccoed, tanked, woozy.
1938		Taunton Courier 9 July 6/7: ‘ou know I was a bit snozzled’.
1944		Honolulu Advertiser (HI) 19 June 5/1: The snozzled judge.
1952		Bakersfield Californian (CA) 3 Nov. 34/6: [headline] ‘Drunk-O-Meters’ Help Police Detect Snozzled Drivers.
1966		Dayton Dly News (OH) 24 July 7/2: A far cry from the halcyon days when King Kalakaua of Hawaii got snozzled on pink champagne.
1977		D.M. Duffey Gun-dog Training 31: It will do your dog very little good, however, if you are content to be an armchair expert, entertaining half-snozzled business and social peers.
1992		Tennessean (Nashville, TN) 19 Mar. 2/4: They’d think twice about getting behind the wheel while snozzled.
2007		J. Davis Baby Steps 111: ‘Lesh get snozzled.’ Liz tipped it down the hatch and the colour returned to her face.
2023		C. Rutheiser Mysteries of the Great City 15: [A] married woman [...] whose husband was passed out snozzled in the sitting room.