sunburned adj.1
1. infected with a venereal disease [pun on SE burned/burned adj.1 (1)].
![]() | Troilus and Cressida I iii: The Grecian dames are sunburnt, and not worth the splinter of a lance. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. n.p.: sun-Burnt, clapt. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. drunk.
![]() | Ram-Alley IV i: That’s all the fault Old Iustices haue, where they are at feasts, They will bib hard, they will be fine Sun-burnt, Sufficent, foxt, or Columberd now and than. |