Fou Drunk
.“Wilbraham has foudrunk”—i.e. is despicably drunk, dead drunk. French, fou, “mad,” as fouenragé; or simply fuʹ, i.e. “full,” “intensive,” as in full-oft, “full-well ye reject the commandment of Godʹ (Mark vii. 9).
“Wilbraham has foudrunk”—i.e. is despicably drunk, dead drunk. French, fou, “mad,” as fouenragé; or simply fuʹ, i.e. “full,” “intensive,” as in full-oft, “full-well ye reject the commandment of Godʹ (Mark vii. 9).
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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.