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stoned

verb
/stəʊnd/UK/stoʊnd/US

Etymology

From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.

  1. derived from stonato — “out of tune, off-key”
  2. inherited from stoned

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of stone

  2. Containing stones.

  3. Having had the stones removed.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Drunk

      Drunk; intoxicated by alcohol.

      • STONED: drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world.
      • 'He could be a mean drunk,' said saxophonist Artie Drelinger. '[…] Booze was his priority, and when he was stoned he could be a son of a bitch.'

    2. High on drugs, especially cannabis.

      • We got stoned and ate four bags of potato chips.
      • Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars / Out here we is stoned, immaculate

    3. Exhilarated

      Exhilarated; intoxicated by something (such as love) other than drugs or alcohol.

      • "I am stoned on Jesus! He turns me on and gives me something drugs never could!"
      • I had told them my sailing plans—a few voyages and then Palmyra—but learned almost nothing about them except they were stoned on life. They were so in love with each other and so enamored with their six-month-old baby, […]
      • Perhaps I even looked stoned on life with that ever-present smile on my face […]

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Derived

stoned ape theory, stonedly, stonedness, unstoned

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stoned. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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