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[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 83: He sat in his corner [...] drunk as a lord.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 124: A Rose-bud, a Carbuncle, or Grog-blossom on your learned snouts.
at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 117: Ye steep down gulphs of liquid fire! Ye blue blazes of damnation!
at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 72: Coming home one night, quite blue, from a grog shop, he got his neck snapped short by a fall into his own saw pit.
at blue, adj.2
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 65: ‘And naked came we too!’ replied they, snatching off their body bags.
at body bag (n.) under body, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 73: Last night a little boozy, / With whisky, ale and cider —.
at boozy, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 61: You are now in a bad box; for if you take notice of him at all, he is sure to turn mad, and give you a confounded knock on the head.
at in a box under box, n.1
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The drunkard’s looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, [...] as first, when he has only ‘a drop in his eye;’ second, when he is ‘half shaved;’ third, when he is getting ‘a little on the staggers or so;’ and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is ‘quite capsized;’ or ‘snug under the table with the dogs,’ and can ‘stick to the floor without holding on.’.
at capsize, v.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 61: Oh! that eternal chatter box his tongue!
at chatterbox, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The patient goes by a variety of nicknames [...] such as boozy—groggy—blue—damp.
at damp, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 95: ‘Heigh, neighbour! hav’nt I done over one of the rascaly sherriffs.’ Supposing that her husband had murdered the sherrif, she began to fill the house with her cries.
at do over, v.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 73: With a ‘drop in his eye,’ he skipped into a carpenter’s shop, and reached his hand to the whiskey bottle.
at drop in one’s eye, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 67: A four-fingered bumper of his beloved Helicon.
at finger, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The drunkard’s looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, [...] as first, when he has only ‘a drop in his eye;’ second, when he is ‘half shaved;’ third, when he is getting ‘a little on the staggers or so;’ and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is ‘quite capsized;’ or ‘snug under the table with the dogs,’ and can ‘stick to the floor without holding on.’.
at stick to the floor without holding on (v.) under floor, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The patient goes by a variety of nicknames [...] such as boozy—groggy—blue—damp.
at groggy, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 113: He guzzles down every dollar of his children’s property.
at guzzle, v.1
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 77: Hurra, for me! a hard horse I am gentlemen, a proper hard horse, depend!
at hard, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 77: Hurra, for me! a hard horse I am gentlemen, a proper hard horse, depend! may-be I an’ta Roarer!
at hard horse (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 94: A group of topers around the door of a tippling shop.
at tippling-house, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 128: Poor Tom has fallen into the hypo.
at hypo, n.1
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 94: ‘That’s none of your look out,’ replied Collier, very roughly.
at lookout, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 77: May-be I an’t a Roarer!
at roarer, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 95: Take that! and that! and that too, you scape-gallows rascal.
at scapegallows, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 77: Here I come! a screamer! yes, d——n me, if I an’ta proper screamer; just from Bengal!
at screamer, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 72: Returning half-shaved, from a regimental muster, he gave his horse the lash [...] and dashed with such violence against a tree, that his brains gushed out.
at half-shaved (adj.) under shaved, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 121: They will [...] scrape and save in the ‘true skin-flint stile’.
at skinflint, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The drunkard’s looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, [...] as first, when he has only ‘a drop in his eye;’ second, when he is ‘half shaved;’ third, when he is getting ‘a little on the staggers or so;’ and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is ‘quite capsized;’ or ‘snug under the table with the dogs,’ and can ‘stick to the floor without holding on.’.
at staggers, n.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The drunkard’s looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, [...] as first, when he has only ‘a drop in his eye;’ second, when he is ‘half shaved;’ third, when he is getting ‘a little on the staggers or so;’ and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is ‘quite capsized;’ or ‘snug under the table with the dogs,’ and can ‘stick to the floor without holding on.’.
at under the table, adj.
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 63: Here, the Barbers and Bakers were swearing like troopers.
at like a trooper (adv.) under trooper, n.1
[US] M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 77: That’s a whaler!
at whaler, n.1
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