drunkenness

Roget-categorie 959

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#959. Drunkenness

zelfstandig naamwoord

drunkenness etc. adj. — intemperance — drinking etc. v. — inebriety^†, inebriation — ebriety^†, ebriosity^† — insobriety — intoxication — temulency^†, bibacity^†, wine bibbing — comtation^†, potation — deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations — bender [U.S.].
oinomania^†, dipsomania — delirium tremens — alcohol, alcoholism — mania a potu [Fr.].
drink — alcoholic drinks — blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine — punch, punch bowl — cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl — drop, drop too much — dram — beer etc. (beverage) 298 — aguardiente^† — apple brandy, applejack — brandy, brandy smash [U.S.] — chain lightning [Slang], champagne, cocktail — gin, ginsling^† — highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres^†.
drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber^†, wine-bibber, lush — hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker — soaker [Slang], sponge, tun — love pot, toss pot — thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian — Bacchal^†, Bacchante^† — devotee to Bacchus^† — bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.

werkwoord

get drunk, be drunk etc. adj. — see double — take a drop too much, take a glass too much — drink — tipple, tope, booze, bouse [Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse — sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus^† — take to drinking — drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish — have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
liquor, liquor up — wet one's whistle, take a whet — crack a bottle, pass the bottle — toss off etc. (drink up) 298 — go to the alehouse, go to the public house.
make one drunk etc. adj. — inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle^†, get into one's head.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

drunk, tipsy — intoxicated — inebrious^†, inebriate, inebriated — in one's cups — in a state of intoxication etc. n. — temulent^†, temulentive^† — bombed, smashed — fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou^†, fresh, merry, elevated — flustered, disguised, groggy, beery — top-heavy — potvaliant^†, glorious — potulent^† — squiffy [Slang] — overcome, overtaken — whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled^†, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy^†, muddled, muzzy^†, obfuscated, maudlin — crapulous^†, dead drunk.
woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.
inter pocula^† — in liquor, the worse for liquor — having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind — under the table.
drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.
drunken, bibacious^†, sottish — given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle — toping etc. v..

uitdrukking

nunc est bibendum [Lat.] — Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]; drink down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]; O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello].

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