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English
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Etymology
England, circa 1330
Adjective
cup-shotten (comparative more cup-shotten, superlative most cup-shotten)
- (obsolete) Intoxicated; drunk.
1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch: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.
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References
- Shipley, Joseph T. (1955) Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 195
- Crystal, David (2014) Words in Time and Place, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31