ebrious

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ebrious

  • /ˈiː.bɹiː.əs/

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From Latin ēbrius (“drunk”).

adjective more ebrious · most ebrious

  1. obsolete Having a tendency towards alcohol abuse.
  2. obsolete Drunk, tipsy.

    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

  3. obsolete Similar to that of a drunk. When the patient entered the consultation room, the neurologist immediately noted his ebrious step, and suspected a lesion of the cerebellum.

    Similar: drunklike, intoxicated-like

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@misc{ebrious_2026,
  title = {ebrious},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ebrious},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}