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Budgy

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Drunk. obsolete, rare, slang

    "Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; stopped a moment at the bar to have a last tot […] and then I heard the spring-door slap after him. […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to."

Etymology

From budge + -y, from budge (“strong drink”).

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