An Australian cartoonist has coined the term "hegsethed" as an alternative to "blotto", "shit-faced", "sloshed", or.....
.......any of a myriad of colorful terms that the English-speaking world had come up with over the years to denote being drunk. Here is the cartoon in question, "First Dog on the Moon", explaining a well known attribute of British politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/01/are-all-our-politicians-on-drugs-no-yet-it-is-fair-to-say-some-may-occasionally-attend-work-refreshed?utm_term=69f44f7fc69c865e88b28b1f496d4365&utm_campaign=FirstDogOnTheMoon&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=firstdog_email
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I recently saw a news segment where a hardy elderly Aussie survived being washed out to sea while kayaking, and he said the worst part was the "mozzies" - I was thinking it was some kind of shark but I looked it up: MOSQUITOS 
as he used it in a number of his novels and stories---
but I had never heard that expression for drunk before I started reading a lot of his material in the 1990's....
(of course, the word later took on another meaning which had nothing to do with alcohol....)
