Words at Play : 17 of the Finest Words for Drinking
Definition:
: intoxicating drink
Example:
"In the morning, after breakfast, we started on out intended expedition, taking only provisions enough for the day, and a sufficient quantity of 'O-be-joyful.'” – Lucy Crawford, The History of the White Mountains, 1845
About the Word:
O-be-joyful began reaffirming the positive properties of intoxicants about two hundred years ago, and although the word is not in considerable use today, a book from 1977 asserted that an abbreviated form of the phrase was still in common use in some areas, and that “some New Englanders even today write ‘OBJ’ on their shopping lists.”
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