大たい酔すい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

dead drunk; heavily intoxicated

Describes a state of extreme drunkenness. Often used in literary or emphatic contexts.

• 彼かれは大たい酔すいして道みち端ばたで寝ねてしまった。

  He got dead drunk and fell asleep by the roadside.

• 大たい酔すいのあまり、昨さく夜やのことは何なにも覚おぼえていない。

  I was so heavily intoxicated that I don't remember anything from last night.