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budgy en · ADJ

Etymology

From budge + -y, from budge (“strong drink”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare, slang) Drunk.
   • Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; stopped a moment at the bar to have a last tot […] and then I heard the spring-door slap after him. […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to. 1876, The Shamrock, volume 14:

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