Tuesday 13 December Challenge MORTGAGED puzzle

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MAGGOTED – extremely drunk… Perhaps an Australianism, Alan, so may be disqualified… I couldn’t find a dictionary reference but there were plenty of examples using Google

[Alan W]

I'll have a look at it in due course, but if we added every Australian word for drunk we'd probably double the size of the word list.

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[Alan W]

Actually maggoted is listed in Wiktionary. It's given three meanings: affected by maggots; (figuratively) rotten; and (Australian slang) drunk, intoxicated. With the drunk meaning, it's also in the Macquarie Dictionary.

The word had some prominence a couple of years ago when an Australian senator who had to be helped from the chamber by her colleagues was alleged to be intoxicated. Some of her fellow-senators described her as "trolleyed", "off her head" and "maggoted". Subsequent discussion focused as much on the word maggoted as on the senator's alleged behaviour.

The word has been used over recent years in Australian publications, and perhaps even more so in unrecorded speech. The oldest example I found was from the Age in a 2007 piece about a Chapel Street bar:

You are there to meet (or meat) friendly people, have a good time and get completely maggoted.

I'll add it as a rare word.

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Thanks Alan...