drunk as a boiled owl in English

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        "Thoroughly drunk; inebriated."
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        "(simile, US, colloquial) Thoroughly drunk; inebriated."
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          "word": "drunk as a cunt"
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        {
          "word": "drunk as a fiddler"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a lord"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a piper"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a skunk"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a sow"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as a wheelbarrow"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as an owl"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as Chloe"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk as David's sow"
        },
        {
          "word": "full as a goog"
        },
        {
          "word": "pissed as a fart"
        },
        {
          "word": "pissed as a newt"
        },
        {
          "word": "tight as a tick"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunk"
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        "colloquial",
        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "drunk as a boiled owl"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Thoroughly drunk; inebriated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inebriated",
          "inebriated"
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      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, US, colloquial) Thoroughly drunk; inebriated."
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      "word": "drunk as a cunt"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a fiddler"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a piper"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a skunk"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a sow"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as a wheelbarrow"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as an owl"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as Chloe"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk as David's sow"
    },
    {
      "word": "full as a goog"
    },
    {
      "word": "pissed as a fart"
    },
    {
      "word": "pissed as a newt"
    },
    {
      "word": "tight as a tick"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunk"
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  ],
  "word": "drunk as a boiled owl"
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"drunk as a boiled owl" meaning in English

Adjective