ETYMOLOGY
from reeling (moving with a swaying or staggering motion) + ripe (adj.)
EXAMPLE
“… SEBASTIAN He is drunk now. Where had he wine?
ALONSO And Trinculo is reeling ripe. Where should they
Find this grand liquor that hath gilded ’em?
⌜To Trinculo.⌝ How cam’st thou in this pickle?
TRINCULO I have been in such a pickle since I saw you
last that I fear me will never out of my bones. I
shall not fear flyblowing. …”
From: The Tempest
By William Shakespeare, a1616
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