Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Drinker’s Dictionary’.

Benjamin Franklin’s 1737 writing of ‘The Drinker’s Dictionary’ published in The Pennsylvania Gazette lists 220 synonyms of a drunken man. Synonyms include ‘Wamble Crop’d’, ‘Flush’d’, ‘Dizzy as a Goose’, ‘Sees two Moons’ and more.
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