Definition: brindezingues

To be drunk. Literally: to have drunk too much to the health of others. "Look at you, you're already in the brindezingues." Vadé, 1756. From the old word brinde: toast. "These great men made so many toasts to your health and ours that they each urinated more than ten times." Curious letter sent to Cardinal Mazarin by his nieces, Paris, 1651.