full as a tick

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full as a tick

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Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink. Then we drank up all the beer, and threw the bottles into the water and fired at them. . . . "Stop ut!" shouted Mulvaney. "Whin you've fired into nothin' as often as me, over a better man than yoursilf, you will not make a mock av thim orders. 'Tis worse than whistlin' the Dead March in barricks. An
Similar: full as a goog, full to the gills, stuffed

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@misc{full_as_a_tick_2026,
  title = {full as a tick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/full%20as%20a%20tick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}