drunk

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drŭngk, IPA: /drʌŋk/, X-SAMPA: /drVNk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Adjective

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol): blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also Wikisaurus:drunk

Derived terms

terms derived from drunk

drunkard drunk as a skunk drunk driver drunk driving

drunken drunkenness punch drunk drunk tank

Translations

intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol

• Albanian: i dehur (sq)
• Arabic: سكران (ar) (sakrān)

  Moroccan Arabic: سكران (skrān) m, سكرانة (skrāna) f

• Armenian: խմած (hy) (xmac), հարբած (hy) (harbac)
• Basque: mozkor (eu)
• Belarusian: п'яны (be) (pʹjány)
• Bengali: মাতাল (bn) (matalô)
• Breton: mezv (br)
• Bulgarian: пиян (bg) (piján)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉 (cmn) (zuì)

• Czech: opilý (cs) m
• Danish: fuld (da)
• Dutch: dronken (nl), zat (nl), bezopen (nl), blauw (nl), beschonken (nl)
• Esperanto: ebria (eo)
• Estonian: purjus (et)
• Finnish: humalainen (fi), juopunut (fi), humalassa (fi), kännissä (fi) (colloquial), jurrissa (fi) (colloquial)
• French: ivre (fr), saoul (fr), (informal) bourré (fr), (Quebec, informal) paqueté (fr)
• Georgian: მთვრალი (ka) (mt‘vrali)
• German: betrunken (de), besoffen (de)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) (methysménos) m
• Hawaiian: ʻona
• Hebrew: שיכור (he)
• Hindi: मतवाला (hi) (matvālā), शराबी (hi) (śarābī), मत्त (hi) (matta), मदहोश (hi) (madahōśa)
• Hungarian: ittas (hu), részeg (hu)
• Icelandic: fullur (is) m, drukkinn (is) m
• Indonesian: mabuk (id)
• Irish: ólta (ga), ar meisce (ga)
• Italian: ubriaco (it), avvinazzato (it), ebbro (it), sborniato (it)
• Japanese: 酔っ払い (ja) (よっぱらい, yopparai), 酔い (ja) (よい, yoi), 酔っぱらった (ja) (よっぱらった, yopparatta)
• Jèrriais: bédé-ouinne m and f, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue m and f, chonmé, en bouaisson m and f, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, gris, ivre m and f, souîn, soûl
• Khmer: ស្រវឹង (km) (sra-weung)
• Korean: 취한 (ko) (chwihan)
• Kuna: mummu

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سه‌رخۆش (ku) (serxosh)

• Lao: ເມົາເຫລົ້າ (lo) (mao-lao)
• Latin: ēbrius (la) m, pōtus (la) m, ūvidus (la), ūvidus (la)
• Latvian: dzērājs (lv)
• Lithuanian: girtas (lt)
• Lojban: xalbebna
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: doen (Gronings)

• Macedonian: пијан (mk) (píjan) m, опиен (mk) (ópien) m
• Malay: mabuk (ms)
• Maltese: fis-sakra
• Manx: er meshtey (gv), scooyrit (gv)
• Maori: haurangi (mi)
• Mauritian Creole: nisa
• Mongolian: согтуу (mn) (sogtuu)
• Norwegian: full (no)
• Old English: druncen (ang)
• Persian: مست (fa) (mast)
• Polish: pijany (pl)
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt)
• Romanian: beat (ro), băut (ro)
• Russian: пьяный (ru) (pʹjányj), (colloquial) бухой (ru) (buxój)
• Sanskrit: मत्त (sa) (matta) m, प्रमत्त (sa) (pramatta)
• Scottish Gaelic: air mhisg (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: pìjan (sh), пѝјан (sh)
• Slovak: opitý (sk)
• Slovene: pijan (sl)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es) m
• Swahili: mlevi (sw)
• Swedish: drucken (sv), full (sv), berusad (sv), packad (sv) (colloquial), dragen (sv) (familiar)
• Tagalog: lasing (tl)
• Thai: ขี้เหล้า (th) (kêe lâo), เมาเหล้า (th) (mao lâo)
• Turkish: sarhoş (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'яний (uk) (pʹjányj)
• Urdu: متوالا (ur) (matvālā)
• Vietnamese: say rượu (vi)
• Walloon: sô (wa) m, sôle (wa) f
• Welsh: meddw (cy), wedi (cy) meddwi (cy)
• West Frisian: dronken (fy)
• Yiddish: שיכּור (yi) (shiker)

elated by emotion

• Bulgarian: опиянен (bg) (opijanen), въодушевен (bg) (vǎoduševen)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca)
• Finnish: juopunut (fi)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) (methysménos) m

• Macedonian: опиен (mk) (ópien) m
• Romanian: beat de ...
• Russian: опьянённый (ru) (opʹjanjónnyj)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es)

Noun

drunk (plural drunks)

1. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10

     Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.

2. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:

     Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

3. A drunken state.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

     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!

Derived terms

• cheap drunk
• expensive drunk
• good drunk

Synonyms

• (habitual drinker): alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Wikisaurus:drunkard

Translations

drinker

• Bulgarian: пияница (bg) (pijanica) m
• Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, embriac (ca) m
• Chamicuro: shinitac̈homalo
• Dutch: dronkaard (nl) m
• Estonian: joodik (et), alkohoolik (et), alkash (et)
• Finnish: juoppo (fi)
• French: ivrogne (fr)
• German: Trinker (de) m
• Greek: μέθυσος (el) (méthysos) m, μεθύστακας (el) (methýstakas) m
• Hebrew: שיכור (he) (shikor)
• Hungarian: alkoholista (hu), (informal) piás (hu)
• Irish: meisceoir (ga)

• Jèrriais: bouaissonneux m, ivrouongne m, soûlard m
• Macedonian: пијаница (mk) (pijánica) m and f, бекрија (mk) (békrija) m (archaic & poetic)
• Polish: pijak (pl) m, pijaczka (pl) f
• Romagnol: imbriagòn m, inciucchèd m
• Romanian: alcoolic (ro) m, bețiv (ro) m, bețivă (ro) f, bețivan (ro) m, bețivană (ro) f
• Russian: пьяница (ru) (pʹjanica) m and f
• Slovak: opilec (sk) m, pijan (sk) m
• Spanish: borracho (es) m
• Swedish: fyllo (sv) n
• Tagalog: lasinggero (tl)
• Yiddish: שיכּור (yi) (shiker) m

a drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness

• Greek: μέθη (el) (méthi) f, μεθύσι (el) (methýsi) n

• Russian: запой (ru) (zapoj) m

Verb

drunk

1. Past participle of drink
2. (southern US) Simple past of drink.