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[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: They all got reguarly nappy [...] indeed, Mary Ann was drunk as an owl - as drunk as a wheelbarrow - drunk as four pipers.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: They were all a little corned [...] and some regularly groggy [...] and then they took the hair of the dog that bit them.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. n.p.: [She] couldn’t see a hole through a 40 foot ladder, for Mary Ann drinks like a fish.
at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: They were all a little corned [...] and some regularly groggy.
at groggy, adj.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: She is always more or less tipsy, she’s muzzy now.
at muzzy, adj.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. n.p.: When she gets a litle toddled she isn’t satisfied [...] and by the time she comes home to me she was regular sewed up.
at sewed up, adj.
[US] Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: She went out and got swipier and swipier.
at swipey, adj.
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