But DRUNKENNESS is a very unfortunate Vice in this respect. It
bears no kind of Similitude with any sort of Virtue, from which it
might possibly borrow a Name; and is therefore reduc'd to the
wretched Necessity of being express'd by distant round-about Phrases,
and of perpetually varying those Phrases, as often as they come to be
well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK.
Tho' every one may possibly recollect a Dozen at least of the
Expressions us'd on this Occasion, yet I think no one who has not
much frequented Taverns would imagine the number of them so great as
it really is. It may therefore surprize as well as divert the sober
Reader, to have the Sight of a new Piece, lately communicated to me,
entitled
The DRINKERS DICTIONARY.
A
He is Addled,
He's casting up his Accounts,
He's Afflicted,
He's in his Airs.
B
He's Biggy,
Bewitch'd,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz'd,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss'd in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock'd,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer's Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He's Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He's kiss'd black Betty,
He's had a Thump over the Head with Sampson's Jawbone,
He's Bridgey.
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