nimptopsical: seriously drunk
Nimptopsical is one of over 200 words listed in Benjamin Franklin's "Drinker's Dictionary," published in 1736. The word's origin is uncertain, but it obviously appeals to the imagination of word enthusiasts. A Google search turned up over 1,000 mentions on various websites and blogs.
Colonial American English was awash in drinking slang. Franklin remarks in the dictionary's introductory paragraph that "no one who has not much frequented Taverns would imagine the number of [these expressions] so great as it really is." Some of the most colorful terms in "The Drinker's Dictionary" are, sadly, no longer heard. These include casting up his accounts, been at Barbadoes, drunk as a wheelbarrow, pissed in the brook, cherubimical, wamble-cropped, loaded his cart, taken off his considering cap, got a brass eye, been to France, been to Jericho, seen the French king, glaized, globular, got on his little hat, moon-eyed, pigeon-eyed, raddled, stiff as a ring-bolt, double tongued, and water soaken.
For more on early American drinking habits, see antifogmatic, calibogus, and cocktail..