1866 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.
1866 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.
1866 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.
1866 Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: They were all a little corned [...] and some regularly groggy.at groggy, adj.
1866 Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: She is always more or less tipsy, she’s muzzy now.at muzzy, adj.
1866 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.
1866 Vermont Transcript (St Albans, VT) 9 Nov. 2/4: She went out and got swipier and swipier.at swipey, adj.