drunk
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drunk
- /dɹʌŋk/
Rhymes with -ʌŋk
Where it comes from
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
adjective drunker · drunkest
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days,
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened. Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten
adverb more drunk · most drunk
- While drunk. He was arrested for driving drunk.
noun drunks
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol. She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind. He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
- A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness. Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- A drunken state. Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
