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Corned. World English Historical Dictionary

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Corned. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Corned ppl. adj. (common).—1.  Drunk. [HOTTEN: ‘possibly from soaking or pickling oneself like salt-beef.’ BARRÈRE: ‘almost beyond doubt … an Americanism from CORN, a very common name for whisky.’ Both are wrong; the verb ‘to corn’ is a common provincialism and Scotticism signifying ‘to be drunk.’] For synonyms, see SCREWED.

1   1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

2   1808.  JAMIESON, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The lads are weel CORNED.

3   1835.  HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, p. 257 (ed. 1862). ‘I was pretty well CORNED thet arternoon, but still I knew what I was about.’

4   2.  (sailors’).—Pleased.

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