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Drunkenness

See also Alcoholism.

Acrasia

self-indulgent in the pleasures of the senses. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]

Admiral of the red

a wine-bibber. [Br. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 11]

Bacchus, priest of

a toper, perhaps originally because of ceremonial duties. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 65]

Barleycorn, John

humorous personification of intoxicating liquor. [Am. and Br. Folklore: Misc.]

Booze

sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153]

Capp, Andy

archetypal British working-class toper. [Comics: Horn, 82–83]

Gambrinus

mythical Flemish king; reputed inventor of beer. [Flem. Myth.: NCE, 1041]

Magnifico, Don

appointed Prince’s butler, oversamples his wines. [Ital. Opera: Rossini, Cinderella, Westerman, 120–121]

Noah

inebriated from wine, sprawls naked in tent. [O.T.: Genesis 9:20–23]

Silenus

one of Bacchus’s retinue; fat, always inebriated. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 283]

Sly, Christopher

identity changes during drunken stupor. [Br. Lit.: Taming of the Shrew]

Tam O’Shanter

stumbling home from the tavern sees witches dancing around open coffins in the graveyard. [Br. Lit.: Burns Tam O’Shanter in Benét, 985]

Vincent, St.

patron saint of drunks. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 1129]