The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to DRUNK

 

ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS		One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him. SEA PHRASE.
ALTITUDES		The man is in his altitudes, i.e. he is drunk.
BOOSEY		Drunk.
BORACHIO		A skin for holding wine, commonly a goat's; also a nick name for a drunkard.
BRISTOL MILK		A Spanish wine called sherry, much drunk at that place, particularly in the morning.
BUMPER		A full glass; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top: some derive it from a full glass formerly drunk to the health of the pope - AU BON PERE.
CAGG		To cagg; a military term used by the private soldiers, signifying a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; or, as the term is, till their cagg is out: which vow is commonly observed with the strictest exactness. Ex. I have cagg'd myself for six months. Excuse me this time, and I will cagg myself for a year. This term is also used in the same sense among the common people of Scotland, where it is performed with divers ceremonies.
CANDY		Drunk. IRISH.
CHOICE SPIRIT		A thoughtless, laughing, singing, drunken fellow.
CHURL		Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine.
CLEAR		Very drunk. The cull is clear, let's bite him; the fellow is very drunk, let's cheat him.
CORNED		Drunk.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
CROPSICK		Sickness in the stomach, arising from drunkenness.
CROWN OFFICE		The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I fucked a woman with her arse upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.
CUP-SHOT		Drunk.
CUT		Drunk. A little cut over the head; slightly intoxicated. To cut; to leave a person or company. To cut up well; to die rich.
DAVID'S SOW		As drunk as David's sow; a common saying, which took its rise from the following circumstance: One David Lloyd, a Welchman, who kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly resorted to by the curious; he had also a wife much addicted to drunkenness, for which he used sometimes to give her due correction. One day David's wife having taken a cup too much, and being fearful of the consequences, turned out the sow, and lay down to sleep herself sober in the stye. A company coming in to see the sow, David ushered them into the stye, exclaiming, there is a sow for you! did any of you ever see such another? all the while supposing the sow had really been there; to which some of the company, seeing the state the woman was in, replied, it was the drunkenest sow they had ever beheld; whence the woman was ever after called David's sow.
DISGUISED		Drunk.
DROP IN THE EYE		Almost drunk.
DRUNK		Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's sow. See DAVID'S SOW.
DUTCH FEAST		Where the entertainer gets drunk before his guest.
EMPEROR		Drunk as an emperor, i.e. ten times as drunk as a lord.
ENSIGN BEARER		A drunken man, who looks red in the face, or hoists his colours in his drink.
FLAG		A groat. - The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alluding to the redness of his face. SEA PHRASE.
FLAWD		Drunk.
FLUSTERED		Drunk.
FUDDLE		Drunk. This is rum fuddle; this is excellent tipple, or drink. Fuddle; drunk. Fuddle cap; a drunkard.
GROG		Rum and water. Grog was first introduced into the navy about the year 1740, by Admiral Vernon, to prevent the sailors intoxicating themselves with their allowance of rum, or spirits. Groggy, or groggified; drunk.
GUN		He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
HALF SEAS OVER		Almost drunk.
HARE		He has swallowed a hare; he is drunk; more probably a HAIR, which requires washing down,
HOCKEY		Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock. See HICKEY.
HOCUS POCUS		Nonsensical words used by jugglers, previous to their deceptions, as a kind of charm, or incantation. A celebrated writer supposes it to be a ludicrous corruption of the words hoc est corpus, used by the popish priests consecrating the host. Also Hell Hocus is used to express drunkenness: as, he is quite hocus; he is quite drunk.
LUSHEY		Drunk. The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure, and got very drunk.
MAUDLIN DRUNK		Crying drunk: perhaps from Mary Magdalene, called Maudlin, who is always painted in tears.
MAULED		Extremely drunk, or soundly beaten.
MELLOW		Almost drunk.
NAZY		Drunken. Nazy cove or mort; a drunken rogue or harlot. Nazy nabs; drunken coxcombs.
PHILISTINES		Bailiffs, or officers of justice; also drunkards.
PIN		In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: an allusion to a sort of tankard, formerly used in the north, having silver pegs or pins set at equal distances from the top to the bottom: by the rules of good fellowship, every person drinking out of one of these tankards, was to swallow the quantity contained between two pins; if he drank more or less, he was to continue drinking till he ended at a pin: by this means persons unaccustomed to measure their draughts were obliged to drink the whole tankard. Hence when a person was a little elevated with liquor, he was said to have drunk to a merry pin.
POGY		Drunk.
PURL		Ale in which wormwood has been infused, or ale and bitters drunk warm.
RAT		A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and confined in the, watch-house. To smell a rat; to suspect some intended trick, or unfair design.
SACK		A pocket. To buy the sack: to get drunk. To dive into the sack; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack with a bottle in it not being an empty sack.
SOAK		To drink. An old soaker; a drunkard, one that moistens his clay to make it stick together.
SOW		A fat woman. He has got the wrong sow by the ear, he mistakes his man. Drunk as David's sow; see DAVID'S SOW.
SUCK		Strong liquor of any sort. To suck the monkey; see MONKEY. Sucky; drunk.
SUN		To have been in the sun; said of one that is drunk.
SURVEYOR OF THE HIGHWAYS		One reeling drunk.
SWILL TUB		A drunkard, a sot.
TIPSEY		Almost drunk.
TOP HEAVY		Drunk.
TOSS POT		A drunkard.
VICE ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS		A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes.
WRAPT UP IN WARM FLANNEL		Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence.