"drunk as David's sow" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-drunk as David's sow.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: According to Grose (1811), 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. 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"
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          "word": "drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
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          "word": "drunk as a piper"
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          "word": "drunk as a wheelbarrow"
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          "word": "full as a goog"
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          "word": "pissed as a fart"
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