(Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
(Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
(Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
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Glasgow and wider Scottish slang for being drunk or heavily intoxicated. Sits in the same register as 'steaming,' 'blootered,' and 'minted' in Scottish dialect — vivid, emphatic, and often used with amusement rather than shame. Typically heard in casual conversation among friends; the -in' ending suggests a present-participle form that became fixed as an adjective.
(Scotland, Glasgow) drunk, intoxicated.
(UK, obsolete) The master of the revels at a Cumberland feast, whose duty it is to see that the guests have plenty to drink.
(Scotland, historical) To draw a hog's bristle through the mouth, as part of a ceremony of citizenship in Selkirk.