Pissed / Pished However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk. If you spend any time in the UK, you will hear it all the time.
Meaning of tipsy in English
slightly drunk: Auntie Pat is getting a little tipsy again.
The contents of the container are also productive, as with sack sopped, groggy, lushy, malty, rummy, swizzled, skimished, plonked, and bevvied. And the fact that the drinks are, by definition, liquid, has resulted in several more, such as soaken, wet, swilled, swash, sozzled, blotto, and liquefied.
In its adjectival form, "tippled" best represents that pleasant feeling you get from finishing a drink (or two) after a long day at work.
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).
/drʌŋk/ Idioms. [not usually before noun] having drunk so much alcohol that it is impossible to think or speak clearly. They were clearly too drunk to drive. His only way of dealing with his problems was to go out and get drunk.
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.
Other plain terms for being drunk which appear in Grose include cup shot, pogy, top heavy, flawd, groggy or grogified, corned and fuddled.
Scottish slang for drunk…
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!
Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk.
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.
Oferdrincere is an Old English word for “drunkard.” Note: Old English was spoken before AD 1000, and it is extremely different from what we speak today.
adjective British Slang. exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
Pommy or pom
The terms pommy, pommie, and pom used in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand usually denote a British person. Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912.
Sheila = Girl
Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
unpredictable behavior usually aggressive...used by mostly Aboriginal people to describe animal behavior: Look out for that croc it's properly cheeky one. That king brown snake was real cheeky so watch out you kids.
Pretty or beautiful. A pretty young women could be described as “a bonnie lass”, an attractive man as “a bonnie lad”.
Rocket (Rocket) Scottish slang for crazy. Ronan is a rocket.
Shot in the Neck – Drunk. Shot its Back – A horse bucking.
Interestingly, the word “hangover”is relatively new, it's really only been around since 1900. Prior to that, it was known by several funnier names: morning fog, gallon-distemper, bottle ache, blue-devils, jim-jams, cropsick, black dog and busthead, but the end result is the same – you feel terrible!
3. Brown bottle flu. Not a valid excuse to miss work though.