1736 Canting Dictionary / H / HALF Seas over [drink]
almost drunk.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Half Seas Over in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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