The Drinker's Dictionary
The Drinker's Dictionary is a list of 228 "round-about phrases" to describe drunkenness. It was published January 6,[1] 1737 (1736 Old Style) in the Pennsylvania Gazette.[2][3] The Pennsylvania Gazette publication is attributed to Benjamin Franklin and appears in his memoirs; however, a very similar wordlist appears in the New England Weekly Journal on July 6, 1736 and differences between the two suggest earlier origins by a different author.[4] Franklin deemed drunkenness as a vice that could never be a virtue, so various terms and phrases were created to mask the inappropriateness of the act.[5]
References
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- ↑ From the Writings of Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1736–1737
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Bibliography
- Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin, William Temple, Duane, William, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume 2, New York: Derby & Jackson (1859), p. 496.
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