how came you so

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English

Adjective

how came you so (comparative more how came you so, superlative most how came you so)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Drunk.
    • 1850, William Mark Clark, Clark's Orphean Warbler, page 258:
      A very little man, very 'how came you so,' / Went home on a dingy night; / It was past twelve o'clock, he'd a long way to go, / And he walk'd like a crab, left and right.
    • 1892, James Mew, John Ashton, Drinks of the World, volume 1, page 16:
      Wine took a large part in the Egyptian ritual, […] and in private life women were not restricted in its use. In fact, the ungallant Egyptians have left behind them several delineations of ladies in a decided state of "how came you so?"

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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