shickered
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכּור.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editshickered
- simple past and past participle of shicker
Adjective
editshickered (comparative more shickered, superlative most shickered)
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Drunk.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 458:
- ‘I'm shikkered. I've never been so shikkered before. Do you know how I know? Because,’ he started giggling, ‘because I don't normally fucking swear.’
- 1994, Annamarie Jagose, In Translation, page 13:
- 'You're shickered, dear.' She is coolly diagnostic. 'You know what you're like when you're shickered.'
Synonyms
edit- See Thesaurus:drunk