cup-shotten

See also: cupshotten

English

Alternative forms

• cupshotten

Etymology

England, circa 1330

Adjective

cup-shotten (comparative more cup-shotten, superlative most cup-shotten)

1. (obsolete) Intoxicated; drunk.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals‎^[1], translation of Moralia by Plutarch:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunk

Related terms

• cup-shot

References

• Shipley, Joseph T. (1955) Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 195
• Crystal, David (2014) Words in Time and Place, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31