... perhaps a thread on words for "feeling the effects of alcohol", to a greater or lesser degree???

There must be hundreds, but I'll start with just one: pixilated.

Ooooooooo..here is one I like! Goodness knows everytime I take a sip of something, someone tells me I'm snockered!

From word detective, I am as drunk as a skunk. It also fits well with my previous "mephitic" post.

There is a similar word already - pixelated - which means to divide into pixels (as of a computerised image).

I have sometimes felt that this has happened to my brain if I am have been unwise enough to drink American beer!

Richard English

Well oiled

Rat-arsed

Kale-eyed

Pissed as a newt

One over the eight

Mortal

Bladdered

I'm off to the pub now for some "chemical" beer to try to achieve one of the above!

Hey, Stan, those are all new to me!

Well Morgan I'm now back from the pub with more ammunition.

Blotto

Full of peeve

Legless

Tipsy

Arseholed

Pissed as a fart

Drunk as a Lord

Stotting

Tanked up

Full as a gun

And finally, from Eileen at the Black Swan:

Lashed

OK, Stan, some of those I know!

How about:

sloshed

wasted

three sheets to the wind

blasted

Interesting, Stan, that a couple of yours use pissed. On our side of the pond, "pissed" is slang for "angry".

Just as I posted, Morgan was adding three sheets to the wind.

There must be some story behind this one, but off the top of my head I can't see why sheets would have become a metaphor for drunkenness. Can anyone advise?

The word sheet is used in the nautical sense. A sheet to a sailor is a rope used for controlling the sails. If a sheet is left to flutter in the wind, the sail it controls will flap and the boat will lose way. With three sheets to the wind the boat will lose way and be uncontrollable, much like someone who is drunk.

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Originally posted by Hic et ubique:
Interesting, Stan, that a couple of yours use _pissed_. On our side of the pond, "pissed" is slang for "angry".

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"Pissed Off" is our equivalent to your "Pissed"

Good Grief, I almost made a major faux pas because I didn't know the meaning of "three sheets to the wind". I recently found a charming picture of a sailboat with the inscription "Three Sheets to the Wind". I almost bought it for one of my colleagues with the last name of "Sheets". She probably would have thought that I considered her a "drunk"!!!!
I was so sure that arnie was wrong with his definition that I went to word detective, which confirmed for me that arnie was right!

Kalleh, O ye of little faith!

I'm glad the Word Detective got it right. I was interested to learn that:

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The specific number of "three sheets" in the phrase wasn't random, by the way -- there was, at one time, a sort of rating system of inebriation among sailors, where "one sheet" meant "tipsy" and so on, up to "four sheets in the wind," meaning to be completely unconscious.

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I'd never known that, but it makes sense (something that doesn't often happen with words).

The Callahan's Pub tales I've been reading, as mentioned elsewhere, taught me a new drinking word. One of the characters is a cluricaune, akin to a leprechaun. At his first appearance the bartender speaks:

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"I'm sorry to say he's not a leprechaun. It's much worse than that. He's a cluricaune. Leprechauns make shoes."

Brief silence.
"What do cluricaunes do?" Doc Webster asked.
"Drink."
He paled. "Oh, shit."
"Hip-deep," I agreed.
"A cluricaune," Long-Drink said darkly, "is a walking thirst."

"He's the finish of this place," I told them all. "Unlike many of the Little Folk, a cluricaune will attach himself to a specific place, rather than to a family or clan. And what he does to that place is to drink it dry as an Iranian cabinet meeting -- no matter what God or man may do or try to do to stop him. A cluricaune can suck booze through a stone jug. He can smell sauce in a cesspool. He'll eat fuming Drano if you pour in a few drops of vinegar. I bet you not one purse in this room has any nail polish remover left in it right now."

The cluricaune began to snore--loudly, and fairly disgustingly. He was not a pretty drunk.

"The cluricaune is here," I said. "Our booze is not."

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Ahh, no one has said hammered.

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Interesting, Stan, that a couple of yours use pissed. On our side of the pond, "pissed" is slang for "angry".

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Hic, we are on the same side of the pond, and yet "pissed" means something else to me....the conclusion of drinking to much beer!

Out here, people who drink too much get shit-faced. We're a genteel bunch.

Tinman

I am forced to conclude that there are as many euphemisms for getting drunk as there are for matters of a sexual nature - and maybe for the same reasons. Most people do it but don't like to admit it too boldly!

Richard English

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Me: Interesting, Stan, that a couple of yours use "pissed". On our side of the pond, "pissed" is slang for "angry".
Stan: "Pissed Off" is our equivalent to your "Pissed"

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We USn's also use "pissed off", in the same way.
With a lesser degree of annoyance is called being "t'd off", short for "ticked off".

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One of the characters is a cluricaune, akin to a leprechaun

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Hic, the cluricaune is new to me. Are there other characters akin to leprechauns????

Two Ive heard are "elephants" and "Brahms"

Richard English

Schindler's list
Scotch mist
Oliver Twist

All right, Richard. I get "elephant's [trunk = drunk], but not "Brahms". [head-scratching icon]

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Originally posted by shufitz:
All right, Richard. I get "elephant's [_trunk_ = drunk], but not "Brahms". [head-scratching icon]

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Does it help that the full expression is 'Brahms and Liszt'?

si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes

Read all about my travels around the world here.

My favourite drink related rhyming slang came from the British TV series Minder. George Cole (Arthur) would order a "Vera Philharmonic."

A free pencil case to the first person from the colonies to name the drink.

Gin and Tonic!

Well done.
I'll drop the pencil case off the next time I'm in your locality!

Americans use piss-faced drunk, don't they? (I sometimes get my Americanisms and Briticisms confused).

plastered
inebriated
under the influence
pickled
smashed
soused
boozed up

>>the full expression is 'Brahms and Liszt'

I am 'liszt' that I 'liszt' that. But I would think that for beer, a more appropriate musical reference might be to Handel's Water Music.

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