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].
- So he went down to the bottle and got blotto.
— from The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden - 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 - "Here's Lord Dredlinton, absolutely blotto!"
— from The Profiteers by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim - When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.”
— from Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - Really, I could never have believed that a dog could look so completely blotto.
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin - I don't know why, but nobody will help you if they think you are blotto.
— from Confidence Game by Jim Harmon - He used to come very nasty sometimes, and once or twice he was fair blotto!
— from The Air Pirate by Guy Thorne - Were it not mine, how 'Blotto' I should be."
— from An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Orpen, William, Sir - "Now he'll go and get blotto, it's the poor devil's failing.
— from The City in the Clouds by Guy Thorne - Not whiffled, perhaps, but indisputably blotto.
— from Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - 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 - 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