[1910–15; ‹ Yiddish shiker (‹ Heb shikkōr drunk, a drunkard) + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, insulin, isotope, radio, zing-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, connected, truncated, unattended, unsettled