parlatic, a. Chiefly Anglo-Irish.
(pɑːrˈlætɪk)
Also par'latic.
[Var. of paralytic a., now dial., of medieval origin: cf. paralytic a. 1, quot. 13.., and Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) IV. 422/1.]
Incapable of effective action; intoxicated; also, demented, crazy.
| 1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World iii. 64 Drinking myself silly, and parlatic from the dusk to dawn. 1931 F. O'Connor in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 81/1 She was struck too parlatic to speak. 1941 E. Starkie Lady's Child II. i. 88 ‘You will drive me parlatic..if you don't stop fiddling with that blind!’ I used to wonder what she meant by ‘parlatic’. 1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 76 Half-dreaming, half par'latic on me back. |