pissed

en-adj

pissed (comparative more pissed, superlative most pissed)

more pissed (comparative)
most pissed (superlative)

From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss + -ed.

The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.

1996, Hunter Davies, The Beatles, page 79:

We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.

2006, Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth, page 201:

We drank, getting more and more pissed, and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Drunk.


drunken

drunken (comparative more drunken, superlative most drunken)

more drunken (comparative)
most drunken (superlative)

From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).

(derogatory) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.

juopotteleva

given to habitual excessive use of alcohol


drunk

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

drunker (comparative)
drunkest (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: drungu

Aukan: duungu

Saramaccan: döö́ngö

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.

appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober

So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 557”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

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

2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013:

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

dronk

intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol

upity

strongly drunk or made drunk by somebody

(derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.

boozy

habitually or frequently intoxicated from alcohol


drunk

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

1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10:

A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4:

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.

1983 December 10, Veneita Porter, “A Little Help From Mom”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.

2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):

A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.

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!

2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10:


sot

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).
Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

unk

obscure

onomatopoeic

expressive

gloss

"foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">zot</i> (“silly”)

Every sign
 That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:

Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.

April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235


sot

en-verb

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

sots (present singular third-person)
sotting (participle present)
sotted (participle past)
sotted (past)

unk

obscure

onomatopoeic

expressive

I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):


shitfaced

en-adj

shitfaced (comparative more shitfaced, superlative most shitfaced)

more shitfaced (comparative)
most shitfaced (superlative)

(slang, vulgar) Under the influence of mind-altering drugs.


jaundice

en-noun

jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)

/ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).

Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 163:

But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!

1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:

In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).

2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 215:

Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?

2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, →ISBN, page 8:

(pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.

No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:

(figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.


jaundice

en-verb

jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)

jaundices (present singular third-person)
jaundicing (participle present)
jaundiced (participle past)
jaundiced (past)

/ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/

The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

(transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

groen en geel worden van nijd of afgunst over


addiction

en-noun

addiction (countable and uncountable, plural addictions)

From addict + -ion; compare (Latin) addictio (“an adjudging, an award”).

Do your lethal addictions to self-prescriptions numb the ache of the darkest days?

2019, Thy Art is Murder, Chemical Christ:

(medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.


inebriation

inebriation (countable and uncountable, plural inebriations)

/ɪˌniːbɹiˈeɪʃən/

From Latin inēbriātiōnem (“drunkenness”), from inēbriō (“intoxicate”), from ēbrius (“drunk”).

in a state of inebriation

The state or characteristic of drunkenness.


drunkenness

drunkenness (usually uncountable, plural drunkennesses)

But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]

1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.

1988, Jasper Ridley, A Brief History of the Tudor Age::

All are synonymous when the drug is not otherwise specified


alcohol

alcohol (countable and uncountable, plural alcohols)

alcohol
alcohol withdrawal syndrome
alcohol-related dementia

→ Arabic: كُحُول (kuḥūl)

→ Korean: 알코올 (alkool), 알콜 (alkol)

→ Malay: alkohol

→ Swahili: alkoholi

→ Tok Pisin: alkohol

Etymology tree
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Entered in the early 15th c. from Middle English alcofol, from Middle French alcohol or Spanish alcohol, derived from the Medieval Latin rendering alcohol transmitted in medical or alchemical literature of Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”), which in Andalusian Arabic also bore the form كُحُول (kuḥūl), قُحُول (quḥūl); bearing thus the meaning of stibnite first, then generalized in meaning to a powder obtained by triturating a material, then also to liquids obtained by boiling down, and specialized to mean spirit of wine, ethanol, in the 18th century, then the narrow chemical sense after 1850.
Various old etymological notes.
* Bartholomew Traheron in his 1543 translation of John of Vigo introduces the word as a term used by "barbarous" (Moorish) authors for "fine powder": the barbarous auctours use alcohol, or (as I fynde it sometymes wryten) alcofoll, for moost fine poudre.
* William Johnson in his 1657 Lexicon Chymicum glosses the word as antimonium sive stibium. By extension, the word came to refer to any fluid obtained by distillation, including "alcohol of wine", the distilled essence of wine.
* Libavius in Alchymia (1594) has vini alcohol vel vinum alcalisatum.
* Johnson (1657) glosses alcohol vini as quando omnis superfluitas vini a vino separatur, ita ut accensum ardeat donec totum consumatur, nihilque fæcum aut phlegmatis in fundo remaneat.
* Some authorities, including Rachel Hajar, suggest that the ultimate etymon was the Arabic term اَلْغَوْل (al-ḡawl, “bad effect, evil result of headache”) (as used in Qur’an verse 37:47, but this word is rather poetical and could for topical reasons not have been picked up from Arabic by Medieval writers, and aside from that the relation to stibium is well documented.
Doublet of alcool and kohl.

etymon

(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).


alcoholic

en-adj

alcoholic (comparative more alcoholic, superlative most alcoholic)

more alcoholic (comparative)
most alcoholic (superlative)

Etymology tree
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English alcoholic
First attested 1891, from alcohol + -ic.

etymon

Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.


drunkard

From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”). Compare German Trunkart.

suffix

(somewhat derogatory) A person who is habitually drunk.


pisshead

(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, vulgar, slang) A person who regularly overindulges in alcoholic drink.


tosspot

Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.

2000 June 13, Darren Tackle, The Guardian:

(UK, Ireland, offensive, slang) A fool, prat; an idiot.


wino

From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).

My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 43:

I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.

(derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.


souse

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

der

Something kept or steeped in brine.
The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
(US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.

Something kept or steeped in brine.
The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
Pickled scrapple.


souse

First appeared online during the Bush administration.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.


boozer

From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).

(UK, military, obsolete) A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.


dependence

en-noun

dependence (countable and uncountable, plural dependences)

From Old French dépendance.
Morphologically depend + -ence.

He had a deep dependence on her for guidance.

The state of being dependent, of relying upon another.


booze

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

She got caught between the shadows and the booze
And she surely did know how to have the blues

1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars

(colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).

(colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.


booze

en-verb

booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)

boozes (present singular third-person)
boozing (participle present)
boozed (participle past)
boozed (past)

We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.

This is better than boozing in public houses.

1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life:

It's worse than kerosene to boose.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62:

(slang, transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage).


hit the bottle

hit the bottle (third-person singular simple present hits the bottle, present participle hitting the bottle, simple past and past participle hit the bottle)

hits the bottle (present singular third-person)
hitting the bottle (participle present)
hit the bottle (participle past)
hit the bottle (past)

He's been hitting the bottle hard since his wife left him.

(idiomatic, colloquial) To drink alcohol steadily and in excess, particularly in response to a setback.


piss-up

. . . passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town.

1950, Jocelyn Greene, The Goose Cathedral, The Bodley Head, page 14:

Last night a bunch of them turned out to a pub near Edgeware [sic] Road tube (where a few of them had helped treat the injured on the 7th), and we had a good old-fashioned piss-up courtesy of Europhobia's generous readers.

2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, The Friday Project, p 228

Therefore with the blessing of Lizzie (herself too upset to attend) Rupert had arranged a sort of pre-wake piss-up in the function room of his London club with a malt whisky tasting, several real ales on tap and a takeaway curry delivered.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A party where people consume alcohol.

couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery


binge drinking

Fights caused by binge drinking are a major problem in Cardiff.

The consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time.


wasted

en-adj

wasted (comparative more wasted, superlative most wasted)

more wasted (comparative)
most wasted (superlative)

(medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).


beer belly

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-beer belly.wav

A protruding belly caused by excess fat stored in the abdomen and colloquially attributed to the consumption of beer.


lightweight

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).

liggewig

bodybuilding: competitive weight division between bantamweight and welterweight

(combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.


boozehound

A 47-year-old, nondescript boozehound who once programmed computers for the French government, Houellebecq is an unlikely choice as either a literary lion or sacrificial lamb.

2005 August 20, “Michel Houellebecq: The sex export”, in The Independent:

He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.

2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


pissed as a newt

(slang, simile) Drunk to the point of incapacity; inebriated.

пиян като талпа

drunk to the point of incapacity; inebriated


rat-arsed

en-adj

rat-arsed (comparative more rat-arsed, superlative most rat-arsed)

more rat-arsed (comparative)
most rat-arsed (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rat-arsed.wav

I got completely rat-arsed last night, and ended up tied naked to a lamp post. I'm not going to do that again.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Extremely drunk.


hangover

American English; hang + over. First sense was first attested in 1904. Second sense was first attested in 1894.

babbelas

negative effects caused by heavy drinking

At the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence. A man, humorously called the valet, cuts the rope at five in the morning.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

(historical) A sleeping arrangement, usually in homeless shelters, over a rope.


delirium tremens

From Latin dēlīrium tremēns (literally “trembling madness”), coined by Thomas Sutton in 1813.

bor

(pathology) A psychosis of chronic alcoholism, usually due to alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, terrifying hallucinations, insomnia, restlessness, disorientation and anxiety.


alcoholism

en-noun

alcoholism (usually uncountable, plural alcoholisms)

From alcohol + -ism. Derived from New Latin alcoholismus chronicus, coined by the Swedish professor of medicine Magnus Huss in 1849.

der+

A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.


dipsomaniac

A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.


drown one's sorrows

en-verb

drown one's sorrows (third-person singular simple present drowns one's sorrows, present participle drowning one's sorrows, simple past and past participle drowned one's sorrows)

drowns one's sorrows (present singular third-person)
drowning one's sorrows (participle present)
drowned one's sorrows (participle past)
drowned one's sorrows (past)

To drink alcohol heavily to deal with miserable feelings.

借酒澆愁

to drink alcohol heavily to deal with miserable feelings


recovery

en-noun

recovery (countable and uncountable, plural recoveries)

From Middle English recoveree, from Old French recovree, from recovrer (“recover”).

The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.

Byford said: "There is no UK recovery from the pandemic without a London recovery, and there is no London recovery without a properly funded transport network.

2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:

(economics) Renewed growth after a slump.

(law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.

(gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.


dipsomania

dipsomania (countable and uncountable, plural dipsomanias)

From dipso- (“thirst; drinking”) + -mania.

Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.


rubby-dub

(slang) A drunkard, especially one who drinks alcohol in non-beverage form, e.g. rubbing alcohol or canned heat.


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

I slipped him a mickey.

(US, slang) A Mickey Finn; a beverage, usually alcoholic, that has been drugged.

He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.

Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift

2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:

(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina.

(Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.

(rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild.


drinker

/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).

a heavy drinker

At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 280:

Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

a bell drinker

a nipple drinker

Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.


sobriety

sobriety (countable and uncountable, plural sobrieties)

drunkenness

[səˈbɹɑɪ.ə.ɾi]

From Old French sobriete, from Latin sobrietas.

The quality or state of not being intoxicated.


drunk as Chloe

Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior.
* Australian vernacular usage (reported by Partridge and others) is influenced by, and often thought to refer to, the well-known nude painting Chloé, which was hung briefly (in 1883) at the National Gallery of Victoria, and later (from 1908) at the Young and Jacksons hotel, Melbourne.

1823, Drink, entry in Jon Badcock, Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-Ton, page 71,
Drunk''' as Chloe; she must have been an uproarious lass.

Sorry to observe that Seymour had ‘been at his tricks,’ and was as drunk as Chloe ! — as the saying is ; but as to who Chloe was, my reading never informed me.

1840, Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, “The Journal of Old Barnes, the Pantaloon: On a trip to Paris, in 1830”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 5, page 466:

They were all as drunk as Chloe, and I being a little in a sympathetic condition, they took me into their confidence.

1859, Melbourne Punch, volume 8, page 40:

They passed many merry-makers homeward bound, many of them following a tortuous course, for the Scottish toper gives way first in the legs, the Southron in the other extremity, and thus between them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.

1896, J. M. Barrie, Sentimental Tommy, The Echo Library, published 2007, page 99:

It was a regular thing for many of the clergy to be as drunk as Chloe on Saturday night, get through their sermon on Sunday morning, and get drunk and sober again before the evening.

1904, New Zealand House of Representatives, chapter L, in Parliamentary Debates, page 53:

(UK, Australia, colloquial, simile) Very drunk.


hungover

en-adj

hungover (comparative more hungover, superlative most hungover)

more hungover (comparative)
most hungover (superlative)

/ˈhʌŋˌəʊ.və(ɹ)/

/hʌŋˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/


happy hour

en-noun

happy hour (countable and uncountable, plural happy hours)

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) Flowers.


sloshed

en-adj

sloshed (comparative more sloshed, superlative most sloshed)

more sloshed (comparative)
most sloshed (superlative)


hip flask

Korean: 힙 플라스크 (hip peullaseukeu)

From being a flask that was originally meant to be worn on the hip.

A container designed to hold small amounts of alcohol, especially spirits, for personal consumption on the go.

плоско шише

pocket-size container for alcoholic beverages


sober up

en-verb

sober up (third-person singular simple present sobers up, present participle sobering up, simple past and past participle sobered up)

sobers up (present singular third-person)
sobering up (participle present)
sobered up (participle past)
sobered up (past)

She's in no state to go home by herself, so make sure she doesn't drink anything else, and she'll soon sober up.

A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.

When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.

To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively).


drink under the table

drink under the table (third-person singular simple present drinks under the table, present participle drinking under the table, simple past drank under the table, past participle drunk under the table)

drinks under the table (present singular third-person)
drinking under the table (participle present)
drank under the table (past)
drunk under the table (participle past)

She had class, but she could drink most of the guys under the table.

(transitive) To drink more alcohol than (someone) while remaining relatively sober.


drink like a fish

drink like a fish (third-person singular simple present drinks like a fish, present participle drinking like a fish, simple past drank like a fish, past participle drunk like a fish)

drinks like a fish (present singular third-person)
drinking like a fish (participle present)
drank like a fish (past)
drunk like a fish (participle past)

(simile) To drink (especially alcohol) heavily and in excess.

пие како смок (pie kako smok, literally “drink like a whipsnake”)


in vino veritas

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Borrowed from New Latin in vīnō vēritās (literally “in wine there is truth”), from in (“in”) + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum (“wine”) + vēritās (“truth”). While various classical writers in both Greek and Latin make similar statements, the form in vino veritas is from the 16th-century humanist Erasmus, and is first attested in English writing soon afterwards in the same century.

bor+

For quotations using this term, see Citations:in vino veritas.

In wine, there is truth
in wine, there is truth#English


elephant's

en-adj

elephant's (comparative more elephant's, superlative most elephant's)

more elephant's (comparative)
most elephant's (superlative)

Cockney rhyming slang, from elephant's trunk where trunk rhymes with drunk.

(Cockney rhyming slang) drunk (intoxicated with alcohol)


intemperance

en-noun

intemperance (countable and uncountable, plural intemperances)

From Middle French intempérance, from Latin intemperantia.

They deserved the enmity of the Pagans; and some of them might deserve the reproaches of avarice and intemperance; of avarice, which they gratified with holy plunder, and of intemperance, which they indulged at the expense of the people, who foolishly admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.

1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXVIII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him.

1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):

Lack of moderation or temperance; excess.


drunk as a skunk

Although skunk might refer to the aroma of some alcoholic beverage, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.


Alcoholics Anonymous

A self-supporting organization of alcoholic people, which proves mutual support to obtain and maintain sobriety.


drunk as a lord

He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord.

1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden:

"Good many of them drunk as lords," said DuBois of the established merriment of the guests.

1997, Max Crawford, Lords of the Plain : A Novel, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 183:

2001, Ryotaro Shiba, Eileen Kato, Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories, Kodansha International, →ISBN:

Then vodka was brought out; the hero of the day would get drunk as a lord and always walked all over the prison, reeling and staggering, trying to show to everyone that he was drunk, that he was “jolly” and so deserving of general respect. Everywhere among the Russian people a certain sympathy is felt for a drunken man; in prison he was positively treated with respect.

2004, Fyofor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead:

"How he managed to light it, God knows, for he was as drunk as a lord.

2006, Edward Marston, The Princess of Denmark: An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell, St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 17:


fuddle

en-verb

fuddle (third-person singular simple present fuddles, present participle fuddling, simple past and past participle fuddled)

fuddles (present singular third-person)
fuddling (participle present)
fuddled (participle past)
fuddled (past)

Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).

Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!

1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book:

(intransitive) To become intoxicated; to get drunk.


knock back

knock back (third-person singular simple present knocks back, present participle knocking back, simple past and past participle knocked back)

knocks back (present singular third-person)
knocking back (participle present)
knocked back (participle past)
knocked back (past)

I was knocked back by the sheer size of the hall.

My friends were already knocking back drinks when I arrived at the bar.

(transitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage swiftly or often; to finish a beverage.

How many job seekers did you knock back today?

(transitive, UK, Australia) To reject; to refuse.

(transitive, baking) To press or knead (dough) so as to remove air bubbles.


insobriety

en-noun

insobriety (countable and uncountable, plural insobrieties)

From in- (“not”) + sobriety, possibly influenced by and punning on inebriation, intoxication, where in- has the sense “in, into”.

The state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety.


alkoholism

Borrowed from German Alkoholismus, Polish alkoholizm, or Russian алкоголизм (alkogolizm).

Yes, it is called alkoholism.

1997 June 19, Klaus Günther Beck, “KZ-DEATH: PCHYSOMATIC DISEASE (NOT GAS)”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

What do you think about lonely drinking. Is it a sign of alkoholism ?

1998 February 25, Elzbieta Maslak, “Lonely drinking”, in rec.food.drink (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

Diagnosis are said to be meningitis/alkoholism/syphilis/eardamage-from-fall-in-prison

1998 March 5, Bo Warming, “Moral Relativism: kz-Wilde and sado-masochism”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

You're surely must know that americans mostly quiting smoking for now. And alkoholism is russian national problem.

1999 June 27, Micke Ionas, “American vs Russian”, in fido7.ru.talk.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-22:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of alcoholism.


get drunk

en-verb

get drunk (third-person singular simple present gets drunk, present participle getting drunk, simple past got drunk, past participle (UK) got drunk or (US) gotten drunk)

gets drunk (present singular third-person)
getting drunk (participle present)
got drunk (past)
got drunk (UK participle past)
gotten drunk (US participle past)

We got him drunk by spiking the punch.

(transitive) To make drunk. (This entry is a translation hub.)

spić

to make strongly drunk or with falling asleep


soaker

(slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.


piss artist

He pulled over to the roadside the policeman walked up to the door Goth had got the window wound down by now, all the copper said to him “get out the van Goth” he just fell out the van laughing, the policeman saying what’s funny Goth. He then said I am painter and decorator by trade and you said it get out the van Goth, Van Goth is a famous Dutch artist, so the policeman replied this you are a piss artist, he then said to Goth get the rear light sorted out, because next time I’ll charge you with a defective rear light.

2006, James T. Long, Knights of the Far East, page 144:

“Yeah, but I’m no drinker, I’m a drunk. A piss artist, a tosspot. I’m sloshed 24/7. Last week I had to use a rope to keep my trousers up, because I was trembling so hard each morning that I couldn’t be arsed with a belt.”

2014, T.M.Simmler, In Vino Veritas:Shaking Frenzy, page 73:

I despised people who got drunk, I referred to them as ‘piss artists, and I had nothing but contempt for them, nothing but contempt for these people, who fell around drunk, who were incoherent when they spoke.

2015, Mary Addenbrooke, Survivors of Addiction: Narratives of Recovery, page 77:

(Australia, British, Ireland, slang) Someone who is frequently drunk (pissed).


alky

No, when an alky blacks out, he keeps doing things. An alky in a blackout is a busy little devil.

Once an alky, always an alky, that's what they say.

1999, Ian Rankin, Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery:


alkie

Clipping of alcoholic + -ie. First use appears c. 1844 in the defunct periodical Akron Ohio Buzzard.

You want to know what it's like to be an alkie, don't you, boy?

Also, she fed patients who were unable to feed themselves and, occasionally, dealt with an alkie who treated a patient badly.

1994, Faye Morgan, Riding the Gold Curve:


substance abuse

(medicine) An overindulgence in and dependence on a drug or other chemical.


-holism

From alcoholism, one of the first addictions to be widely identified both medically and socially.
It should be noted that the word alcoholism is broken up into the root, "alcohol", and the suffix "-ism", not "alco" and "-holism". The suffix "-holism" is thus a result of false splitting.

a form of addiction, either physical dependency or obsessive dependency.


cheap drunk

(slang, informal) Someone who is easily intoxicated.

cheap date

nearly synonymous, but with sexual overtones


expensive drunk

en-noun

expensive drunk (plural expensive drunks)

(slang, informal) Someone who must drink a lot of alcohol in order to get intoxicated.


drink problem

drinking problem
drinking problem#English


drunk tank

[I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].

1962, Charles Bukowski, “letter”, in On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 57:

It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, “Won't see another one”

1987, Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer (lyrics and music), “Fairytale of New York”, in If I Should Fall from Grace with God, performed by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl:

(slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.

тверези́лня

cell where drunken people are detained until they are sober


dipsomaniacal

en-adj

dipsomaniacal (comparative more dipsomaniacal, superlative most dipsomaniacal)

more dipsomaniacal (comparative)
most dipsomaniacal (superlative)

[…]dividing his remaining energies between stints as a tennis pro at ranch-type resorts and then short-run productions at something called the Desert Beat Theater Project, the father, a dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death by spider-bite and by stage fright[…]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 63:

Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.


dry drunk

Denise called Frank a "dry drunk." He no longer drank but he continued to indulge in "the same wild, erratic behavior binges" without the "excuse of alcohol" in his system.

2013, Kate Maloy, Margaret Jones Patterson, Birth Or Abortion?: Private Struggles in a Political World, →ISBN:

"I think Big Jed's dad may be a dry drunk. He seems to have all the problems of an alcoholic, just not the drinking.[…]"

2020, M. D. Linville M. Meadows, A Spiritual Pathway to Recovery from Addiction, A Physician's Journey of Discovery, →ISBN:

A recovering alcoholic who is not drinking alcohol, but has relapsed mentally and emotionally;

Family members frequently report that a dry drunk is as difficult to live with as a "wet drunk." After all, it is not the drinking and drugging that bothers family members but the abusive, unpredictable behavior that comes with it.

1991, Philip St. Romain, Freedom from Codependency, →ISBN, page 60:

One of the best ways out of a "dry drunk" is to work with another still-suffering alcoholic.

1995, Hamilton B., Getting Started in AA, →ISBN, page 186:

Abstinence leaves me without nicotine, but still living with the old beliefs and behaviors that cry for the drug—in short, living a "dry drunk."

1990, Ellen Walker, Smoker: Self-portrait of a Nicotine Addict, →ISBN:

(by analogy) Any substance addict who has quit using, but remains psychologically dependent.


dry drunk

But more interestingly, they distinguish between being "dry drunk"—being on the wagon, but still wanting to drink—and being "sober," neither drinking nor wanting to.

2017, The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two, →ISBN:

Being a recovering alcoholic who has quit drinking alcohol, but remains psychologically dependent.


inebriacy

WICHITA, Kan., June 1—George Bradshaw, son of a prominent resident here, died yesterday from causes alleged to have been brought about by the treatment he was taking for the cure of inebriacy.

1892 June 2, “Killed by an Inebriacy Cure”, in New York Times, page 9:

"I have had a remarkable case of inebriacy under my personal observation. The patient drank heavily for fifteen years and reach a degraded condition."

1910 March 5, “Orrine Does Cure Drunkenness”, in Daily Times, USA, page 2:

(rare, dated) The state or characteristic of drunkenness, especially as a persistent condition.


bibacity

en-noun

bibacity (usually uncountable, plural bibacities)

Concerning this Sinne of Bibacity and Vinosity , Infinite are the Examples

1648, Thomas Beard, Thomas Taylor, The Theatre of Gods Judgements:

The practice or habit of drinking too much alcohol.


dipsology

From Ancient Greek δίψα (dípsa, “thirst”) + -logy.

The study of the thirst for alcoholic beverages.


wastoid

From waste + -oid. Compare waster (“idler”), wasted (“in a drugged state”).

Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid. You're not gonna blaze up in here.

1985, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, 00:54:35:

(slang, derogatory) A person with a drug or alcohol addiction.


kaylied

en-adj

kaylied (comparative more kaylied, superlative most kaylied)

more kaylied (comparative)
most kaylied (superlative)

Uncertain; possibly from kali (“type of candy”); see sherbet (sense 4).

He got completely kaylied last night.

So come and wave your 'ons from side to side and we'll drink loads of beer till we're more kaylied.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:


mania a potu

Learned borrowing from Latin mania ā pōtū (literally “madness from the drink”).

lbor

(dated) Madness caused by alcohol intoxication.


affluence of incohol

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A deliberate spoonerism, jokingly implying that the person is too drunk to utter the phrase correctly.

(humorous) Spoonerism of influence of alcohol.


alcohol intoxication

Coordinate term: alcohol poisoning

Alcohol intoxication or drunkenness is characterized by impaired coordination, motor skills, and judgment; slurring of speech […]. Intoxication depends on many factors, including what is drunk, and the person's weight,

1998, Health in the New Millennium: The Smart Electronic Edition, →ISBN:


alcohol poisoning

en-noun

alcohol poisoning (countable and uncountable, plural alcohol poisonings)

A high blood level of alcohol, toxic enough to injure or kill a person.

醇類中毒

condition of having very high alcohol level in blood


in wine, there is truth

It is a saying, that “wine inspires wit;' and that in wine “there is truth.” These sayings are the apologies of drinkers.

1823, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 14, page 321:

In wine there is truth. People who love wine and have a lot of it still like to get a great wine as a present.

1998 December, Ron Loutherback, “Beyond the Label”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 174:

In wine there is truth, or so they say, and this just may be the way to heaven, then again we began this time just fine, with a bottle of red wine, parked on an incline just you and I, not far from my safe haven, inhabited by ravens sex laden, with a maiden which is you,

2003, Kanaan, Delicate Torture: (Living Poetically), →ISBN, page 79:

“My grandfather never understood the point of a mission statement. But whenever anybody asked him about making wine, he always said this,” and Mr. Main pointed at a sign that read: In wine, there is truth. In good wine, there is hard work.

2011, Donald L. Anderson, Cases and Exercises in Organization Development & Change, →ISBN, page 35:

In wine there is truth, and although I was able to contain my excesses, and fell short of protesting my undying amour, our conversation had touched on most remarkably personal matters.

2014, Christopher Priest, The Space Machine, →ISBN:

Things said under the influence of alcohol reveal true beliefs not expressed when sober.

الْحَقِيقَة فِي النَّبِيذ

one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol

af børn og fulde folk skal man høre sandheden

kinderen en dronken mensen spreken altijd de waarheid

οἶνος ἐστίν ἀληθής (oînos estín alēthḗs, literally “wine is truthful”)

ובכעסו.

bish'loshá d'varím 'adám nikkár: b'khosó, b'khisó, uv'kha`asó.

что у тре́звого на уме́, то у пья́ного на языке́ (što u trézvovo na umé, to u pʹjánovo na jazyké, literally “what a sober man has on his mind, a drunk man has on his tongue”)


parandero

On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.

2002, Moon handbooks: Guatemala, page 63:

The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.

2008, Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad., →ISBN:

Few people know this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.

The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise, →ISBN, page 263:

Paul Nabor was a legendary Garifuna parandero from Punta Gorda, Wilfred Peters was a Creole brukdown accordionist from Belize City, and Florencio Mess is a traditional Maya harpist living in the farming village of San Pedro Columbia.

2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:

(Caribbean) A man who performs parang music.


reel-pot

And lastly some shall have a palsy in their feet, and will not be able to stand to anything but shake and reel from the stall into the channel—your excellent reel-pots.

1604, Thomas Middleton, Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604:

There I heard news out of all countries in all languages: how many villains were in Spain, how many luxurs in Italy, how many perjureds in France and how many reel-pots in Germany.


squeeze-grape

He was a notable squeeze-grape, a huge quaffer, his glasse should bee alway brim-full, and he would vp with it de profundis; his vsuall draught was a large pint & a halfe: and hauing drunke liberally before he came to the rack, think∣ing that would haue made him lesse sensible of his paine, he confest at the first, whatsoeuer they would haue him.

1623, Mabbe, James, transl., The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán, page 33:


swill-bowl

But nothing like to that hath been shewed since in the English church by the spiritual tyrant of Rome and his mitred termagants, at the provocation of their oiled swill-bowls and blind Balaamites. For they most cruelly brent those innocents which did but only read the testament of God in their mother-tongue; and do not yet repent them of that mischief, but continue therein.

1547, John Bale, The Second Examination of Anne Askewe; republished in Christmas, Henry, editor, Select Works of John Bale, The Parker Society edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1849, Britannish, page 193:

Wantonness was never such a swill-bowl of ribaldry; nor Idleness ever such a carouser of knavery.

1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, page 141:


swill-flagon

Out, thou German wine-flask!—Out, thou eternal swill-flagon!—Heard you ever of a modest maiden who drank wine before she had dined?

1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:


swill-belly

I'll not account of her as of my child. / Was there no better object for her eyes / But a foul drunken lubber, swill-belly, / A shoemaker? That's brave!

1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, act 4, scene 5; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 63:


swill-pot

But, said he, what doth that part of our army in the meantime which overthrows that unworthy swillpot Grangousier?

1653, Thomas, transl. Urquhart, chapter XXXIII, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by Francois Rabelais, First Book:

Look you, ye hang-dog! You ſhall caſt flections on me and my ways! You ſhall, ye ſwill-pot!

1799, George Peter Holford, True Patriotism, act2, scene 1, page 22:

Beer, ye boozy scabs! Ha'n't ye enough a'ready? Don't I pay for it, and for every minute of time ye rob me of, ye swabs, ye swill-pot hounds? There's the pond for ye. Go and lap water, like the lazy dogs ye are!

1892 June 5, Arthur Morison, “The Legend of Lapwater Hall”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 66, page 110:


swill-tub

But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.

1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261:


suck-pint

Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM:

As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.

1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33:


rinse-pitcher

Rince Pytcher is he that will drinke out his thrift at the ale or wine, and be oft times dronke. This is a licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink, and brybe his meate that is kept for him.

[1561, John Awdely, “The Orders of Knaues”, in The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; republished in Edward Viles, Frederick James Furnivall, editors, Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caveat, Haben's Sermon, &c, London: Early English Text Society, 1869, page 13:

What the godly Cromwell saw in this Royalist rinse-pitcher it is now difficult to assess — but he sought him for his son-in-law.

1971, Allen Andrews, The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, page 9:


lick-wimble

[…]I bind me, my heires, Ale-squires, pot-companions, Lick-wimbles, Maltwormes, Vine-fretters, and other faithfull Drunkards firmely by these presents:[…]

c. 1638, Richard Brathwait, “Laws of Drinking”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Barnabae Itinerarium: Or Barnabee's Journal, volume 1, published 1820, page 208:

c. 1642, A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting.:


alcohol use disorder

alcohol use disorder (countable and uncountable, plural alcohol use disorders)

Near-synonyms: drinking problem (informal), alcoholism

A spectrum of misuse of potable alcoholic drinks.


drunkle

We've all got a drunkle in the family.

2015 July 31, Skudworth, “When your drunk uncle babysits you”, in Reddit, ANormalDayInRussia, archived from the original on 2022-12-25:


drinking culture

drinking culture (usually uncountable, plural drinking cultures)

A set of traditions and social behaviors that surround the consumption of alcoholic beverages as a recreational drug and social lubricant.


hanging out of one's arse

en-adj

hanging out of one's arse (not comparable)

I’m hanging out of my arse. I’m trying to drink to play well but it’s having the wrong effect. I’m just getting pissed again!

2010 August 17, John Skibeat, “TLOBF Interview // Malefice”, in The Line of Best Fit:

‘Mate, I’m hanging out of my arse. But I’ve got to score some runs, because I’ve had a bet with Vaughany and he knows I was pissed last night. […]

2018, Andrew Flintoff, Do You Know What?: Life According to Freddie Flintoff, London: Blink Publishing:

[…] its effects are similar to a combination of alcohol and MDMA, but without the comedown. If you've ever spent a full weekend hanging out your arse, you'll likely be thinking, "Sounds great, please administer this immediately."

2019 December 3, Emma Garland, “The Rise and Rise of GHB, the Most Dangerous Club Drug in the World”, in Vice:

(British, vulgar, slang) Suffering from a severe hangover.