Recently, One Of The Crossword Answers To The Clue 'inebriated'

[Tilly2]

was tosticated or tossicated. I can't find it now. Can anyone help?


A totally new word for me.

[ducksie]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1533339.html

is this it

[Jackdaw33]

Tossicated sounds right. It is a made-up word, not to be found in any of my dictionaries.

[Captain2]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tostication

[slaney]

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-tos1.htm

[Tilly2]

Thank you all.

[aelmpvw]

tosticated ... great new word on me, i can't say it without sounding drunk

[Jackdaw33]

Me too. I have often been crapulent but I don't remember being tosticated.

[1ozzy]

And I thought "intoxicated" meant inebriated.

I really need to drink more!

[1ozzy]

Is it too late to make a "new years resolution"?

[Tilly2]

I bet you become desiccated when you've been tosticated.

[Jackdaw33]

I haven't checked the etymology but suspect that someone who was intoxicated might pronounce it as 'tosticated'.

[Tilly2]

This is from Jo's link.

I fancy thou art a little intoxicated tonight. Tosticated! Tosticated! I scorn your words, cries Deborah. I defy the best man in Bath, to say black is my eye; or that I was ever consarned in liquor, since my name was Deborah. Tosticated! No; God help me! I have drunk nothing to-day, but a little tea for breakfast, and half a pint of ale at my dinner.
The Spiritual Quixote: or, the Summer’s Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, by Richard Graves, 1773.

[scorpiojo]

Whaaaaaaa?

[Tilly2]

Sorry, Slaney's link.

[Baldric]

^^ Jo's Link?

[Baldric]

Oops, ^^ X'ed in Post, ;o)

[dannyk13]

Methinks that some on here may be tosticated'

[Jackdaw33]

Not quite yet, Danny, but I've made a start.

[Tilly2]

Not me! I've only had two cups of hot water. :-)

[1ozzy]

Haa haa, 8:45pm here. Once again, I'm way in front ;-)