swipey
adjEtymology From swipe + -y; see swipe (“inferior beer”).
- "I've brought home Mr. Chuzzlewit. He ain't ill. He's only a little swipey, you know." Mr. Bailey reeled in his boots, to express intoxication.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
- "Lord, I've an 'eadache on me!" said he. "I believe I was a bit swipey last night."1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in The Ebb-Tide:
- Synonyms
- drunk