cup-shotten
adjEtymology England, circa 1330
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Obsolete Intoxicated; drunk.
- In which verses, the poet if I be not deceived, doth covertly and by the way imply a difference betweene liberall drinking of wine, or being somewhat cup-shotten, and drunkennesse indeed: for to sing, to laugh, and to daunce, be ordinarie matters, incident to those who have taken their liquor well, and be heat with wine, but to prate like a foole, and not as the Latine seemeth to reade.1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch: