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- noun idiomatic A person who is
cheerful andcompanionable whenintoxicated , retaining reasonable control of his or hermental andemotional faculties .
Etymologies
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Probably first used in literature in this manner by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises (1926).
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