English Explanatory Dictionary

drunk as David's sow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Thoroughly drunk.

Pronunciation

En-au-drunk as David's sow.ogg

Word forms

drunk as David's sow

Etymology

Francis Grose, in his A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), claims derivation from an instance in which a man named David Lloyd, who was accustomed to showing his six-legged sow as a curiosity, found his intoxicated wife where he expected the sow to be. Grose's dictionary was meant as a work of humour, and this story is almost certainly fanciful. Variants of the phrase predate it by over a century (see e.g. R. Monsey's Scarronides (1665) "As drunk as any Davids Sows" (p. 20)).

Synonyms

drunk as a cunt drunk as a fiddler drunk as a fiddler's bitch drunk as a lord drunk as a piper drunk as a skunk drunk as a sow drunk as a wheelbarrow drunk as an owl drunk as Chloe full as a goog pissed as a fart pissed as a newt tight as a tick
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