highly intoxicated from the consumption of alcoholic beverages. derivative of "pissed", meaning "to be intoxicated".
australian in origin, as grain trucks driving along highways leave grain behind which falls in puddles and the water of the puddles become fermented after time. the parrots drink the water and get quite loose!
"he was as pissed as a parrot by the time the bartender cut him off"
"food tastes great if you're as pissed as a parrot
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)