peloothered
English
editEtymology
editCoined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Possibly from Hiberno-English as a humorous dialectal corruption of blootered or polluted.
Adjective
editpeloothered
- (rare, informal) Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
- 1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 197:
- ‘ […] How did it happen at all ?’
‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.
- 1988, Frederick Exley, Last Notes from Home[1], →ISBN:
- By this time Jimmy was working himself into such a state—he'd already told me “I'm peloothered, lurve, bleeding peloothered”—that I felt he'd be unable to proceed.
- 2015 March 17, Paul Anthony Jones, “17 Words Invented By James Joyce”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 29 September 2015:
- If you're peloothered then you're very, very drunk.