Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Confused or muddled with drink; tipsy; maudlin.

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Examples

  • Walpole, who said, "If I drink more, I shall be 'muckibus!'?"

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Hertford's, if she was not the best-humoured creature in the world, I should have made her angry: she said in a very vulgar accent, if she drank any more, she should be muckibus.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

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  • Can't believe it's not listed!

    April 23, 2011

  • Not valid in Scrabble! What a blow!

    October 10, 2013

  • He thinks of himself as a lucky cuss
    If going to bed he is muckibus.
    He's loved by no mortal
    But through liquor's portal
    He blissfully visits his succubus.

    December 31, 2015