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Literary notes about blotto (AI summary)

The term "blotto" is consistently deployed in literature as a colorful adjective denoting a state of intoxication. In some instances it highlights an extreme level of drunkenness—characters are depicted as entirely incapacitated by alcohol, as seen when someone "got blotto" after a bout at the bottle [1, 2]. At other times, the word lends a humorous or facetious tone to descriptions of inebriation, whether referring to a noble figure in a light jab at his state [3] or a character whose tipsy appearance is noted with a degree of irony [4, 5]. Throughout various contexts, the term underlines a casual, almost vernacular quality in narrative voice when portraying the effects of alcohol [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12].
  1. So he went down to the bottle and got blotto.
    — from The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
  2. I regret that one night, while I was staying at G.H.Q. Tanks, I got "blotto."
    — from An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Orpen, William, Sir
  3. "Here's Lord Dredlinton, absolutely blotto!"
    — from The Profiteers by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
  4. When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.”
    — from Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  5. Really, I could never have believed that a dog could look so completely blotto.
    — from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin
  6. I don't know why, but nobody will help you if they think you are blotto.
    — from Confidence Game by Jim Harmon
  7. He used to come very nasty sometimes, and once or twice he was fair blotto!
    — from The Air Pirate by Guy Thorne
  8. Were it not mine, how 'Blotto' I should be."
    — from An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Orpen, William, Sir
  9. "Now he'll go and get blotto, it's the poor devil's failing.
    — from The City in the Clouds by Guy Thorne
  10. Not whiffled, perhaps, but indisputably blotto.
    — from Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  11. She wasn't exactly blotto, but she had evidently laid a good foundation for a first-class jag.
    — from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
  12. We ceased to think there was any harm in being occasionally "blotto" at night, or in employing the picturesque army word "bloody."
    — from Tell EnglandA Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

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