Drinking

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These usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "drinking."  For fuller information about each usage, see the main list.  There are twenty-six files there.  Just click on to the appropriate letter.

a blue mixed:  blue label and mild ale, mixed

Ale, out on the: out carousing

alehouse mad: an incurable lush

at it again: drinking heavily again

babycham: small bottle of champagne

badger piss: inferior liquor

beer for dogs:  seemingly endless supply of same

Bells of Shannon, to be giving it: letting it all hang out at a do

bevvied:  drunk

bevvy: drink

bevvy ken: alehouse

Bird and the Baby: another name for the Eagle and Child Pub

black and tan: Guinness and mild ale

bladdered: drunk

bombed: thoroughly inebriated

booze-jerk, -jerker: a bartender

booze-moke: horse for beer wagon

booze-up: party

boozer: public house

boozery: brewery

Buck's Fizz:  champagne or sparkling white wine and orange juice

champers: champagne, sometimes with brandy

chemicked: drunk

de Pope's phone: Vat 69 whisky

derty stopout: Citizen Neverhome

do: party

fally: mixture of beer and stout

fender ale: beer drunk at home

few scoops, a:  a few rounds of drink

fill your boots:  good health, and here's to you

gedtheeaylin: fill this, please

gill, a:  half pint

gozzified: woozy from drink

half a bitter: one half pint of light ale

(h)alf shot: drunk

(h)alf pissed: drunk

(h)alf seas over: drunk

(h)alf cut: drunk

(h)alf soaked: drunk

I `ad a few: drunk

jars out: there will be plenty of beer

jug: a pint

jungle juice:  rum(sometimes, bitters)

kalied: drunk

legless: thoroughly intoxicated

livener: hair of the dog on the morning after

lotion: one more name for booze

lushed: drunk

maiden's water(virgin's piddle): weak beer

merry: very drunk

meths: mentholated spirits

minesweeper: drink stealer

Miss Euphoria:  morphine and gin cocktail

mojo:  mentholated spirits

Nelson's Blood: rum

on the slops, to be: to be on a bender, a long drinking spree

on the tiles, to be out on, or to do a night on the tiles:  out carousing

one over the eight: drunken excess at ale

PAFO: hospital code for drunks brought in: pissed and fell over

parlatic: thoroughly intoxicated

Peter Hudson: about two thirds of a half pint

pinta Fally's: pint of Falstaff ale

plonky: a wine drinker

potcheen(potheen): in Liverpool, any liquor

rat-arsed: very drunk

red biddy:  cheap red wine

rollin' in ther shit:  thoroughly drunk

scoused: drunk

Screech: dark Demerara rum

shebeen: site for illegal liquor sales

shift ale, to:  consume large amounts of beer

slab of beer:  case of beer

sozzled: drunk

twig: a drink of something

virgin's piddle: weak beer (or other alcoholic drink)

wet the baby's head: perhaps just one drink

whirlies:  dizzy from drinking
 
 

SAYINGS (DRINKING)

Eed suck der sweat from a dockers armpit

Es la ders a cactus in der bottom of me glass: your turn to buy.

Ey mate the ops in dis ale are drownin: the beer must be watered

More kick from a snake dan dis gnatspiss: the beer must be watered.

Fill yer boots, wack: here's to you.

towils is on: no more alcoholic beverages being served tonight.

stop yer tap: no more for you.

smell uv the barmaid's apron: I'll only drink a little bit.

avyer seen Phyllis?: notice that my glass is empty.

that feller spills more than I drink

`atches is off, de: alcohol is now being served.

To smoke a dry pipe: a pipe unaccompanied by a pint.

There's a baby in every bottle of Guinness

Any port in a storm, as my father used to say

Any port before bed will do, as me mum always said

A hangover: me head was going like a bucket of frogs

Beer past its time: the beer was so flat it should have been sold in envelopes