Our favourites in the Independent office include 'symbelwlonc' – one of the earliest recorded words for 'drunk' in Old English – as well as 'splifficated' (1906), 'whiffled' (1927), 'pot-shotten' (1629), 'fox-drunk' (1592) and 'in one's cups' (1611).
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.”
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 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drunk, such as: stoned, tipsy, bashed, befuddled, buzzed, and crocked.
Hammered, Smashed, Plastered
These are all words that you only really hear in the UK that mean the same thing: “very drunk”
Words for “drunk”:
legless. off one's face. maggot (really drunk) pissed.
Brahms and Liszt – pissed (drunk)
'Had a jag. ' 'Had a load. '
Turnt and turnt up begin as a slang term in African-American English meaning “excited,” “adrenalized,” or “intoxicated,” as the online hip-hop dictionary the Right Rhymes defines it. The term, though especially associated with drugs, alcohol, and sex at a crazy party, has broadened to mean “a state of being wild.”
People typically got hooch or giggle water – alcohol– from a barrel house or gin mill, which were distribution places, and maybe kept it in their hipflask (which is pretty self-explanatory).
Munted: When something is really broken or someone is highly intoxicated. As in “That fulla is munted!” Stoked: Pretty happy and chuffed about something.
Scottish slang for drunk…
Now this is one word they have plenty of versions of! Blootered, Steamin', Wrecked, Bladdered, Hammered, Sloshed and Smashed to name just a few of the more regular sounding ones. 'Ooot yer tree', 'Steamboated', 'Mad wae it' and 'Ooot the game' being some of the stranger sounding phrases!
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'Piddle' in cockney rhyming slang, meaning to urinate. Unlike most of the personal names used in rhyming slang, the ...
Pig's ear: A beer.
A: Both are accepted – but “jail” is preferred. It admits that “in general, the spelling of this word has shifted in Australian English from gaol to jail”. However, it goes on to add that, “gaol remains fossilised in the names of jails, as Parramatta Gaol, and in some government usage”.
A koozie ( /ˈkuːzi/ KOO-zee) (US) or stubby holder (Australian) is a fabric or foam sleeve that is designed to thermally insulate a beverage container, like a can or bottle.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
Aussies use “cheers!” in a number of instances: to say thank you, in celebration, when drinking, and to say hello and goodbye. Get ready to hear “cheers mate!” a lot. No matter how strange sounding these Aussie slang terms are at first, you will inevitably adopt them in no time.
Let's start with one of the most famous Australian slang phrases: 'No worries'. It's said to be the national motto of Australia. This expression means “do not worry about it”, or “it's all right”.
Use tipsy to describe a person who's just slightly drunk. If you've ever been to a wedding reception, you've probably seen a tipsy person. Your aunt who gets a little tipsy on New Year's Eve might giggle more than usual, for example.