[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-493000-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":80,"doc-detail-493000-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":73,"head_meta":75,"extra_data":77,"updated_unix":79},105,"en","the-drinkers-dictionary-read-online-free","The Drinker ʼs Dictionary - read online free","","A satirical dictionary tracing how “drunkenness” invents endless euphemisms, presenting Benjamin Franklin’s collected terms for being drunk and explaining that vice often imitates virtue through shifting names. It frames drunken behavior as requiring roundabout description, then introduces a “new piece” called The Drinker’s Dictionary. The text then lists a large set of alphabetized expressions describing intoxication in colorful, archaic, and humorous language.",{"@graph":14,"@context":72},[15,34,55],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/","Literature",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-drinkers-dictionary-read-online-free/493000/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-drinkers-dictionary-read-online-free/493000.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"4398046744996","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-25","2026-10-01",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":30},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",{"@type":56,"mainEntity":57},"FAQPage",[58,64,68],{"name":59,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":61},"Why does the text say drunkenness is hard to name directly?","Question",{"text":62,"@type":63},"It argues that drunkenness cannot borrow a name like genuine virtue can, so it forces speakers into distant, round-about phrases that change as people understand them.","Answer",{"name":65,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":66},"Who wrote the term list referenced in the document?",{"text":67,"@type":63},"Benjamin Franklin is stated to have written a comprehensive list of terms meaning “drunk.”",{"name":69,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":70},"How is the dictionary organized?",{"text":71,"@type":63},"Entries are organized alphabetically by initial letter, with many example phrases for being intoxicated.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},493000,1792171708,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",[83,87,90,94,99,104,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":84,"show_sort_weight":85,"slug":86},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":88,"slug":89},80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":91,"show_sort_weight":92,"slug":93},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":95,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":100,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":101,"show_sort_weight":102,"slug":103},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":105,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":106,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":131},{"doc_id":78,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":11,"doc_module":4,"category_id":26,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":133,"file_id":134,"file_url":135,"file_type":136,"file_size":137,"view_count":30,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":26,"language":138,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":139,"faqs":140,"seo_title":141,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":142,"read_time":30},4398046744996,"The Drinker ʼs Dictionary  \nby Benjamin Franklin  \nNothing more like a Fool than a drunken Man.  \n-Poor Richard  \nʻTis an old Remark, that Vice always endeavours to assume the Appearance of Virtue: Thus Covetousness calls itself Prudence; Prodigality would be thought Generosity; and so of others. This perhaps arises hence, that Mankind naturally and universally approve Virtue in their Hearts, and detest Vice; and therefore, whenever throʼ Temptation they fall into a Practice of the latter, they would if possible conceal it from themselves as well as others, under some other Name than that which properly belongs to it.  \nBut DRUNKENNESS is a very unfortunate Vice in this respect. It bears no kind of Similitude with any sort of Virtue, from which it might possibly borrow a Name; and is therefore reducʼd to the wretched Necessity of being expressʼd by distant round-about Phrases, and of perpetually varying those Phrases, as often as they come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK.  \nThoʼ every one may possibly recollect a Dozen at least of the Expressions usʼd on this Occasion, yet I think no one who has not much frequented Taverns would imagine the number of them so great as it really is. It may therefore surprize as well as divert the sober Reader, to have the Sight of a new Piece, lately communicated to me, entitled The DRINKERS DICTIONARY.  \nBrought to you by Libation Lab  \n[LibationLab.com](LibationLab.com) is the online guide to booze education and cocktail experimentation. We offer in-depth, yet easy-to-read articles that aim to demystify the beverage and bartending industries, create and share our new cocktail recipes, and explain how the home enthusiast can create high-quality and unique cocktail components at home, as well as recreating the amazing feats of their favorite bartenders, to both impress friends and woo women.  \nThe Drinker ʼ s Dictionary  \nBen Franklin wrote a comprehensive list of all terms meaning “drunk,” some of which are still in use, and a hundred more which we can only wish were still common parlance.  \nPick out your favorite and use it while out getting “oxycrocium” until it catches on.  \n[L i b a t i o n L a b . c o m](L i b a t i o n L a b . c o m)  \nA  \nHe is Addled,  \nHe ʼs casting up his Accounts, He ʼs Afflicted,  \nHe ʼs in his Airs.  \nB  \nHe ʼs Biggy, Bewitch ʼd, Block and Block, Boozy,  \nBowz ʼd,  \nBeen at Barbadoes, Piss ʼd in the Brook, Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow, Burdock ʼd,  \nBuskey,  \nBuzzey,  \nHas Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer ʼs Basket,  \nHis Head is full of Bees, Has been in the Bibbing Plot, Has drank more than he has bled,  \nHe ʼs Bungey, As Drunk as a Beggar, He sees the Bears, He ʼs kiss ʼd black Betty,  \nHe ʼs had a Thump over the Head with Sampson ʼs Jawbone, He ʼs Bridgey.  \nC  \nHe ʼs Cat, Cagrin ʼd,  \nCapable, Cramp ʼd, Cherubimical,  \nCherry Merry, Wamble Crop ʼd, Crack ʼd, Concern ʼd,  \nHalf Way to Concord, Has taken a Chirriping-Glass, Got Corns in his Head, A Cup to much,  \nCoguy,  \nCopey,  \nHe ʼs heat his Copper,  \nHe ʼs Crocus,  \nCatch ʼd,  \nHe cuts his Capers, He ʼs been in the Cellar, He ʼs in his Cups, Non Compos, Cock ʼd,  \nCurv ʼd, Cut, Chipper,  \nChickery,  \nLoaded his Cart, He ʼs been too free with the Creature,  \nSir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap, He ʼs Chap-fallen.  \nD  \nHe ʼs Disguiz ʼd,  \nHe ʼs got a Dish, Kill ʼd his Dog, Took his Drops,  \nIt is a Dark Day with him, He ʼs a Dead Man, Has Dipp ʼd his Bill, He ʼs Dagg ʼd,  \nHe ʼs seen the Devil.  \nE  \nHe ʼs Prince Eugene,  \nEnter ʼd, Wet both Eyes, Cock Ey ʼd, Got the Pole Evil, Got a brass Eye,  \nMade an Example, He ʼs Eat a Toad & half for Breakfast.  \nIn his Element.  \nF  \nHe ʼs Fishey, Fox ʼd, Fuddled, Sore Footed, Frozen, Well in for ʼt,  \nOwes no Man a Farthing,  \nFears no Man, Crump Footed, Been to France,  \nFlush ʼd,  \nFroze his Mouth, Fetter ʼd,  \nBeen to a Funeral, His Flag is out, Fuzl ʼd,  \nSpoke with his Friend, Been at an Indian Feast.  \nG  \nHe ʼs Glad, Groatabl","cbCaiqLLDN9YQtuP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqLLDN9YQtuP","pdf",370083,"English","# Alphabetized intoxication expressions\n## A\n## B\n## C\n## D\n## E\n## F\n## G\n## H\n## I\n## J\n## K\n## L\n## M\n## N\n## O\n## P\n## Q\n## R\n## S","[{\"question\":\"Why does the text say drunkenness is hard to name directly?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that drunkenness cannot borrow a name like genuine virtue can, so it forces speakers into distant, round-about phrases that change as people understand them.\"},{\"question\":\"Who wrote the term list referenced in the document?\",\"answer\":\"Benjamin Franklin is stated to have written a comprehensive list of terms meaning “drunk.”\"},{\"question\":\"How is the dictionary organized?\",\"answer\":\"Entries are organized alphabetically by initial letter, with many example phrases for being intoxicated.\"}]","The Drinker ʼs Dictionary - read online free | PDF",1790873534]