† lion-drunk, a. Obs.
Said of a man in the second of the proverbial four stages of drunkenness, in which he becomes violent and quarrelsome.
The mediæval saying was that wine makes a man successively resemble a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. (See Skeat's note to Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 45.)
| 1592 Nashe P. Pennilesse 23 b. The second [kind of drunkard] is Lion drunke, and he flings the pots about the house, calls his Hostesse whore [etc.]. 1623 Massinger Bondman iii. iii. a 1640 Day Peregr. Schol. (1881) 52 When the lions bloode mates with a furious disposition,..it converts to rage, stabbings, and quarrells; and such we call Lion-Drunk. |