peloothered

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peloothered

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Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Possibly from Hiberno-English as a humorous dialectal corruption of blootered or polluted.

adjective

informal, rare Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated. ‘[…] How did it happen at all?’ ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.
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

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@misc{peloothered_2026,
  title = {peloothered},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peloothered},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}