ˈbarley-ˌhood
[f. barley (used for ‘malt liquor’) + -hood, suffix of condition; perh. with some reference to hood ‘covering for the head’: cf. barley-hat in barley B 2.]
A fit of drunkenness, or of ill humour or temper, brought on by drinking.
| a 1529 Skelton El. Rummyng 372 And as she was drynkynge, She fyll in a wynkynge Wyth a barlyhood. 1725 A. Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. ii, In his barlickhoods, ne'er stick To lend his loving wife a loundering lick. 1805 A. Scott Poems 51 (Jam.) Whan e'er they take their barley⁓hoods, And heat of fancy fires their bludes. |