What does 'As full as a goog' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'As full as a goog' meaning?
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To be extremely drunk, or to be full of alcohol. “Goog” is a variation of the northern English slangword “goggie” meaning an egg.
goog: full as a goog
Extremely drunk; replete with food; extremely full, packed.
In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy ‘a child’s name for an egg’, retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.
Other Australian combinations include full as a boot, full as a Bourke Street tram, and full as a pommy complaint box. Full as a goog is recorded from the 1930s.