"drunk as David's sow" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-drunk as David's sow.ogg
Etymology: Francis Grose, in his A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785), claims derivation from an instance in which a man named David Lloyd, who was accustomed to showing his six-legged sow as a curiosity, found his intoxicated wife where he expected the sow to be. Grose's dictionary was meant as a work of humour, and this story is almost certainly fanciful. Variants of the phrase predate it by over a century (see e.g. R. Monsey's Scarronides (1665) "As drunk as any Davids Sows" (p. 20)). Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} drunk as David's sow (not comparable)
  1. (simile) Thoroughly drunk. Tags: not-comparable
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          "word": "drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
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