"drunky" meaning in English

See drunky in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: drunkies [plural]
Etymology: drunk + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|drunk|y}} drunk + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} drunky (plural drunkies)
  1. (slang) Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, slang Alternative form of: drunkie (extra: a drunkard)
    Sense id: en-drunky-en-noun-UCQhOF62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for drunky meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "drunk",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "drunk + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "drunk + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drunkies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "drunky (plural drunkies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a drunkard",
          "word": "drunkie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, W. H. Russell, Hesperothen: Notes from the West, volume 1",
          "text": "Inside were stretchers and appliances for removing prisoners, and, that the alarm might not be fruitless, the mayor directed the police to pick up a \"drunky\" whom we had passed on the way, amusing a group of children […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Fritz Pointer, A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six",
          "text": "For so long as I can remember, my old man, he was a drunky and a bully. So many times I have seen him beat my ma without mercy, with a buckle belt or his fists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-drunky-en-noun-UCQhOF62",
      "links": [
        [
          "drunkie",
          "drunkie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drunky"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "drunk",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "drunk + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "drunk + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drunkies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "drunky (plural drunkies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a drunkard",
          "word": "drunkie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, W. H. Russell, Hesperothen: Notes from the West, volume 1",
          "text": "Inside were stretchers and appliances for removing prisoners, and, that the alarm might not be fruitless, the mayor directed the police to pick up a \"drunky\" whom we had passed on the way, amusing a group of children […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Fritz Pointer, A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six",
          "text": "For so long as I can remember, my old man, he was a drunky and a bully. So many times I have seen him beat my ma without mercy, with a buckle belt or his fists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drunkie",
          "drunkie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Alternative form of drunkie (“a drunkard”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drunky"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.