Way back when English was Old English, between AD 600 and 1100, you were either “drunken” or “fordrunken” (very drunk) after a night of carousing. Even today, “drunken” will do for describing how you may be spending New Year's Eve. But you might also be “blinkered,” “oiled” or “lit.”
These include "hammered," "plastered," "sloshed," "smashed," "wasted" and "legless," because people often find it difficult to walk when they've had too much to drink. Here are some other expressions that are related to drinking alcohol. To be "tipsy" means that you're feeling a little bit drunk – but not too much!
barfly (slang) bibber. booze artist (slang, Australia) boozehound (slang) boozer (slang)
Derro. Meaning: (Noun) Australian slang for a drunkard, someone that is so drunk they are derelict.
There are 3,000 words for 'being drunk' in English language. There are over 3,000 English words, including slangs, that are used to refer to 'being drunk', according to Oxford Dictionaries. The words include 'intoxicated', 'wrecked', 'trashed', 'wasted', 'bibulous', and 'ramsquaddled'.
Synonyms of 'half-drunk'
tipsy, fuddled, stupefied, tiddly.
Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated. Other adjectives for drunk were: buffy, dead-oh, half-shot, lushy, scammered (like hammered), shicker, sozzled, squiffed, squiffy, squizzed, and tanked. If you looked awful on top of getting drunk, you might be described as 'shickery. '
On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavy drinker, such as: barfly, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, dipsomaniac, drunkard, and hard drinker.
(also burnt, burnt out) having had too much drink and/or drugs, which have taken their toll both physically and esp. mentally.
The Angry Drunk – The angry drunk is infamous for turning unpredictable and unsafe after getting drunk. They usually drink a few and immediately become too aggressive for the given setting. They also take the slightest offense or insult and immediately turn things into an altercation.
unable to speak or act in the usual way because of having had too much alcohol: I got completely drunk at my sister's wedding.
Bugger. (Noun/verb/adjective) A mild profanity that's also one of the most versatile words in Australian English. Exclamation; “Bugger! I dropped some more avo on myself.”
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
(neologism) An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, remorse, and/or obsessive concern about some uncertain event, which may be experienced during the day(s) following a bout of alcohol drinking.
Generally, people drink to either increase positive emotions or decrease negative ones. This results in all drinking motives falling into one of four categories: enhancement (because it's exciting), coping (to forget about my worries), social (to celebrate), and conformity (to fit in).
If making sure your liver is going to last you throughout this multi-decade journey called life is important to you, then you should do everything you can to reduce your number of weekly drinks—preferably to under 14 drinks a week for men, 7 for women, and definitely not more than 21 drinks a week for men or 14 for ...