Cup-shotten

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Intoxicated; drunk. obsolete

    "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."

Etymology

England, circa 1330

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: cupshotten