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drunk

adj
/dɹʌŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

  1. derived from *drinkaną✻
  2. inherited from *drunkanaz✻
  3. inherited from druncen
  4. inherited from drunke

Definitions

  1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic…

    Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

    • "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"

  2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

  3. Elated or emboldened.

    • Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
    • drunk with recent prosperity
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

      • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

    2. While drunk.

      • He was arrested for driving drunk.

    3. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

      • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.

    4. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

      • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.

    5. A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.

      • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.

    6. A drinking bout

      A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

      • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
      • I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…].
      • Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into our shared hallway.

    7. A drunken state.

      • Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

    8. past participle of drink

    9. simple past of drink

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Derived

appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, blind drunk, cock-drunk, crunk, cumdrunk, dead drunk, dribbling drunk, driving drunk, drunchies, drungry, drunkalogue, drunk and disorderly, drunkard, drunk as a boiled owl, drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as an owl, drunk as a piper, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as Chloe, drunk as David's sow, drunk dial, drunk driver, drunk driving, drunk-driving, drunken, drunkenness, drunkery, drunkie, drunkish, drunkle, drunklike, drunkly, drunkness, drunkometer, drunkorexia · +34 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at drunk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01drunk02intoxication03intoxicating04intoxicant05intoxicates06intoxicate07intoxicated

A definitional loop anchored at drunk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at drunk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA