These won't help you win a trivia contest, but they will make you chuckle.

1300s: Drunk as a whistle, drunk as all get-out, taverned, cupshotten, down among the dead men, drunk as an ape, dizzy, feebleminded, mad, double-tongued, drunk as a mouse, drunk as a Pope

1400s: Drowned the shamrock, dronke, drunk as a swine, overseen, pissed as a skunk, served up, off me pickle, aroused

1500s: Aled up, befuddled, drinking deep, malt above the meal, swallowed a tavern token, shattered, shaved, swilled up, whittled, rowdy, has more than one can hold, has on a barley cap

1600s: Admiral of the narrow seas, beastly drunk, cap-sick, bubbled, caught a fox, D and D (drunk and disorderly), boozed, dull in the eye, elevated, giggled up, got bread and cheese in one's head, muddled up, drinking merry-go-round, on the rampage, seeing double

1700s: Addled, rotten drunk, cherry-merry, clips the King's English, cracked, cranked, dizzy as a coot, fuddled up, full as a goat, got a snootful, groggy, happy-juiced, in the altitudes, jacked up, juiced to the gills, lapping it up, cockadoodled, drinking like a fish, and stewed, screwed, and tattooed

1800s: A bit on, a couple of chapters into the novel, a cup too much, a date with John Barleycorn, a drop too much, a little in the suds, peg too low, piece of bread and cheese in the attic, a public mess, on a bender, above par, altogether drunk, apple palsy, at peace with the floor, lifting the little finger, been looking through a glass, banged up on sauce, bemused, blue around the gills, breath strong enough to carry coal with, can't see a hole in a ladder, caught the flavor, corked, dead to the world, doped up, woozy, drunk as Bacchus, drunk as forty billygoats, electrified, feeling glorious, fired up, fogged in, full to the brim, ginned, groggified, half gone, haywire, inked, lushed, moonshined, off the deep end, on the rocks, pie-eye, polished, sloppy drunk, sloshed, stinking, soaked, swazzled, tanked, whacked out of one's skull

1900s: Lit, high, party animal, three sheets to the wind, tipsy, slave to drink, aboard, blown away, done, gone, liquored up, bashed, buzzed, acting like a fool, baked, blasted, bombed, blitzed, bonkers, canned, creamed, crocked, fried, hammered, stoned, toasted, double vision, wasted

2000s: Boneless, get the fade on, tight, torqued, bulletproof, shined, Picassoed, locked out of your mind, jagged up, in the paint, pixilated, punch drunk, drunk as hell

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