[f. BARLEY (used for ‘malt liquor’) + -HOOD, suffix of condition; perh. with some reference to hood ‘covering for the head’: cf. barley-hat in BARLEY B 2.] A fit of drunkenness, or of ill humor or temper, brought on by drinking.
a. 1529. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 372. And as she was drynkynge, She fyll in a wynkynge Wyth a barlyhood.
1725. A. Ramsay, Gent. Sheph., I. ii. In his barlickhoods, ne’er stick To lend his loving wife a loundering lick.
1805. A. Scott, Poems, 51 (Jam.). Whan e’er they take their barley-hoods, And heat of fancy fires their bludes.
