| 释义 |
how-come-ye-so, adj. phr. arch. dial. or slang.
Tipsy.
1816Monthly Mag. 1 July 494/2 [Degrees of intoxication.] How came you so. 1824T. Hook Sayings & Doings III. (Merton) xiii. 89. She used to be—‘Lord, how come ye so!’ every night. 1827J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. x. 258 It is quite in reason to believe your husband was..a little of what I call how-come-ye-so. 1843Knickerbocker XXII. 366 We were never ‘groggy’, ‘intoxicated’,..‘how-came-ye-so’..or ‘tight’, but once. 1904J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri xii. 223 Drank rum by the hogshead... Well, one evenin' Labe was comin' home pretty how-come-you-so, and he fell into Jonadab Wixon's well. |