half seas over
English
Adjective
half seas over (not comparable)
- (slang) Partly drunk.
- 1830, Richard Warner, “chapter XIII”, in Literary Recollections, volume II, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 6065177, page 6, footnote:
- Many of my readers will recollect the memorable night, on which William Pitt and his ingenious friend and jovial compotator, Harry Dundas, went into the House of Commons, in a condition usually described by the phrase "of being half seas over."
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Usage notes
The phrase is used only predicatively.
See also
- Thesaurus:drunk
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for half seas over in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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