escabiador

Spanish

Etymology

From escabiar (“to drink booze, get drunk”) +‎ -dor, from escabio (“booze”) from vernacular Italian scabio, scabi (“wine”), from Ligurian scabbio and Lombard scabbi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskabjaˈdoɾ/, [eskaβjaˈðoɾ]
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧bia‧dor

Adjective

escabiador (feminine singular escabiadora, masculine plural escabiadores, feminine plural escabiadoras) (Argentina, Uruguay, lunfardo, slang, colloquial)

1. given to boozing, drinking heavily; excessively consuming alcoholic beverages; frequently drunken, boozy, bibulous, sottish

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho

Noun

escabiador m (plural escabiadores, feminine escabiadora, feminine plural escabiadoras) (Argentina, Uruguay, lunfardo, slang, colloquial)

1. boozer, drunkard, inebriate; one who drinks alcohol to excess; alcoholic, boozehound, drunk, sot, wino; a heavy drinker who is habitually intoxicated with alcohol

   Synonyms: alcohólico, bebedor, beberrón, borrachín, tomador

Related terms

• escabiado
• escabiar
• escabio