drunk
See also: Drunk
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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 getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 557”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- 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, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.
- 2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013:
- "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- drunk with recent prosperity
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:42:
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
SynonymsEdit
- (intoxicated from alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
- (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol): boozy, sottish
- (saturated with moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
- (slightly intoxicated): tipsy, buzzed
Derived termsEdit
- blind drunk
- cock-drunk
- cum drunk
- dead drunk
- drunk and disorderly
- drunk as a boiled owl
- drunk as a cunt
- drunk as a fiddler
- drunk as a fiddler's bitch
- drunk as a lord
- drunk as a piper
- drunk as a skunk
- drunk as a sow
- drunk as a wheelbarrow
- drunk as an owl
- drunk as Chloe
- drunk as David's sow
- drunk dial
- drunk driver
- drunk driving
- drunk tank
- drunk text
- drunk-driving
- drunkalogue
- drunkard
- drunken
- drunkenness
- drunkish
- drunklike
- drunkness
- drunkorexia
- get drunk
- perma-drunk
- punch drunk
- punch drunk syndrome
- punch-drunk
- roaring drunk
- sleep-drunk
- sloppy drunk
- stale drunk
- welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
- whistle-drunk
TranslationsEdit
intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol
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elated by emotion
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NounEdit
drunk (plural drunks)
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- 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.
- Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard
- 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.
- 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:
- 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!
- 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
one who is drunk
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habitual drinker
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drinking-bout — see drinking-bout
drunken state
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VerbEdit
drunk
- past participle of drink
- (Southern US) simple past tense of drink