Upsee-Dutch

A heavy Dutch beer; Upsee Freese a Friesland strong ale; Upsee English, a strong English ale. Upsee Dutch also means tipsy, stupid with drink.

“I do not like the dulness of your eye,

It hath a heavy cast; ʹtis upsee-Dutch,

And says you are a lumpish whoremaster.”

Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, iv. 4.

“Yet whoop, Barnaby! off with thy liquor,

Drink upsees out, and a fig for the vicar.”

“Teach me how to take the German upsy freeze, the Danish rouser the Switzer’s stoop of Rhenish.”—Dekker: Gull’s Hornbook (1609).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.