1926 G. Hughes Mummers' Play of Heart of Old Kentucky in 102 O Dan, you're drunk! You're drunk as a skunk!
1959 H. K. Hastings & J. Muir xii. 190 The screen door opened and Uncle Caleb reeled out, drunker than a skunk, with a jug of Mr. Ignew's shine under his arm.
1980 G. Owen 94 Of course he was as drunk as a skunk in a mash barrel.
2012 R. O'Neill (2013) 36 I order an ice-cold bottle of beer and gulp it down. Then I have another and another until I'm drunk as a skunk.