Re: USAGE: Weird dialectal stuff

At 8:13 pm -0500 10/1/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> Of course, 'tossicated' is the p.p. of 'to tossicate' = "to get someone
>> drunk"    :)
>
>Interesting, I'll have to remember that one.  Does "tossicate" come from
>"intoxicate"
Almost certainly so - tho I suspect it is influenced by 'toss' as in
'toss-pot' (a drunkard).  I understand it occurs (or more probably now,
occurred) in other dialects, as well as a related form 'tosticated'.

Ray.

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