No matter what, with the alarm clock permanently unplugged, thus enabling the giggle water to freely pour, you were bound to get ossified, spifflicated, and downright zozzled. Excessive consumption of alcoholic brews naturally zozzles the mind.
Strange to think how dappers and flappers in the 1920s linked getting drunk with ossification (“the process of turning to bone”).
These slang terms for “being drunk” were notable in the 1920s, though a term like spifflicated goes back to the early 1800s!
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