Founding father Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790) was, among many things, a prolific writer and publisher, perhaps best remembered for his annual “Poor Richard’s Almanack.” He also published (and perhaps authored) “The Drinker’s Dictionary,” which contained more than 200 synonyms for the word “drunk.”
Among them: bowz’d, bungey, crump-footed, fuzl’d, hammerish, niptopsical, raddled, swampt and water-soaken.