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The True Drunkard’s Delight choose

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[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: He is as [...] drunk as a piper [Ibid.] 227: He may also, comparatively, be as drunk as [...] a fiddler, a Gosport fiddler or, a fiddler’s bitch, the devil, hell, or blazes, drunk as a wheelbarrow, the drum of a wheelbarrow, a fly, a mouse, a rat, a fish, or a tapster, drunk as a besom, a muck, a porter, or a beggar, drunk as a nurse at a christening.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] is up a tree.
at up a tree, phr.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He may also, comparatively, be as drunk as [...] a rat.
at drunk as a rat, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at jack (a) dandy, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Adam’s wine.
at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at afloat, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at afternoon man, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler may further be [...] all key-hole.
at all keyhole, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at alleviator, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 229: Of course, there is small beer or [...] arms and legs.
at arms and legs, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler may be [...] all mops and brooms.
at mops and brooms, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 228: Australian slang recognises beer in she-oak, shearer’s joy and in artesian.
at artesian, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: He is as [...] drunk as David’s sow.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] has a guest in the attic.
at have a guest in the attic (v.) under attic, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at ball, n.2
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at charter the bar (v.) under bar, n.2
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 229: Strong ale is variously called [...] nappy, stingo, barley-wine.
at barley, n.1
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 230: Brandy is your nectar and you shout for [...] O-be-joyful. [note] Particularly a good brandy. A brandy drinker may be known as an O-be-joyfuller or O-be-joyful merchant.
at o-be-joyful, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at dip one’s beak (v.) under beak, n.2
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 244: A sot, a barrel [...] in America, a beer-jerker.
at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He has been on the skyte, bend, loose, soak.
at on a bend under bend, n.2
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at binder, n.1
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 226: [...] in difficulty, in liquor, in the altitudes, dogged, mashed, off, off his nut or, out of funds, a bit on.
at have a bit on (v.) under bit, n.1
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] has been bit by a barnmouse.
at bit by a barn-mouse under bit by..., phr.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 246: Weak tipple, swish-swash, fit only for drinking at a cat-, hen-, or bitch-party.
at bitch party (n.) under bitch, n.1
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 247: D.T.s., Delirium tremens, or [...] black dog.
at black dog, n.2
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 230: Black-strap is, in America, gin mixed with molasses.
at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
at bloat, n.
[UK] ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 248: Grog-blossoms, Pimples achieved by furious drinking.
at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
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