DRUNK IN ENGLISH

 

 

 

The following synonyms all refer

to being drunk. Their meaning may

vary from ‘slightly tipsy’ to ‘comatose’.

They are from all over the world.

 

Well, do you what you like,

but never DUI …

(drive under the influence)

 

This list is by no means complete.

If you know of a synonym that is

missing, please mail: mail

 

 

I’ll add the synonym and honour

you by adding your name to your

contribution (unless you don’t want

me to, of course …

 

Thanks, Anthony, for your contributions!

 

 

a public mess

ablaze

about

about right

addled

afflicted

afire

aflame

afloat

alcoholic

alcoholled

alkied-up

all gone

all gowed up

ambushed

animated

annihilated

aped

arseholed

at peace with the floor

awry-eyed

bacchanal

bacchanalian

bacchic

backwards

bagged

banged upon sauce

banjo’d

bashed

bassackwards

bat

beery

behind the cork

belligerent

belted

bemused

bender

bent

besotted

bibacious

bibulous

bladdered

blasted

blathered

blatted

blind

blind drunk

blitzed

blitzkrieged

blobbing

blotto

blowing beer bubbles

blown-away

bludgeoned by life

blue

boiled

boiling over

bolloxed

bombarded

bombed

bongoed

boozed

boozer

boozy

bout

boxed

brandy-faced

breathless

broken

buckled

bulldozed

bullet

bunned

buried

bust

butt wasted

buttered

buzzed

cabbaged

cancelled

canned

capernoited

carousing

chemically enhanced

chemically imbalanced

cocked

cockeyed

cognacked

comblasted

comblinded

cordial

corked

cormed

corned

count Drunkula

cracked

cranked

crapulent

crapulous

crashed

crinked

crocked

crunk

crushed

cued up

cut

dead to the world

deleerit

delirious

derailed

disguised

disorderly

dizzy

done

doped

down the creek

drenched

drugged

drunk as a fiddler

drunk as a lord

drunk as a piper

drunk as a skunk

drunk as a wheelbarrow

drunk as an owl

drunk as blazes

drunk as chloe

drunk as david’s sow

drunkard

drunken

ecstatic

edged

elevated

embalmed

enthusiastic

euphoric

excited

faced

faded

far-gone

featured

febrile

fermented

fervent

fervid

fevered

feverish

fiddled

fiery

flaked out

flaming

floating

flush

flushed

flustered

fou

franked

frayed

frazzled

fresh

fried

frozen

fubarred (thank you, Kimberley)

fucked up

fuddled

full

full as a tick

fully kroizoned

furschnickered

gagged

gassed

gay

giddy

glazed

glorious

glowing

glued

gone

gone borneo

good to go

gooned

goose

greased

groatable

grogged

groggy

half in the bag

half-cocked

half-cut

half-gone

half-seas over

hammered

hamstered

happy

heated

het-up

high

hooched-up

hooped

hopped-up

horizontal

horseback

hot

howling

humming

humoured

hurting a turtle

impaired

impassioned

in a ditch

in liquor

in rare form

in the bag

in the gutter

in the ozone

in your cups

inebriate

inebriated

inebrious

inflamed

influenced

inspirited

intense

inter pocula

intoxed

intoxicated

invincible

jagged

jar’d

jazzed

jiggered

jugged

juiced

just south of bejesus

keen

kettled

keyed

klangered

kooked

laid out

langered

lashed

leaked

leaning

leaping

leathered

legless

licked

limp

liquored up

lit

lit up

lively

loaded

locked

logged

looped

loopy

lubed up

lubricated

lumga

lush

lushed

lushy

magoogled

marinated

mashed

massacred

maudlin

mellow

Merle Haggard

merry

messed up

minging

mortal drunk

mortalled

muddled

mullered

muzzy

nappy

narcotised

nimtopsical

not so farfrompuken

nuked

obfuscated

obliterated

off the wagon

off ya face

off ya nut

off your trolley

oiled

on a bender
on a campaign

on fire

one over the eight

orgiastic

ossified

out cold

out of it

out of ya tree

out of your mind

over the bay

over your cups

overcome

overtaken

owled

palatic

paralytic

paralytic

partied-out

passionate

pealaid

pickled

piddled

pie-eyed

piffled

pifflicated

pissed

pissed as a fart

pissed as a newt

pissing

pixilated

plastered

plotzed

plowed

plowed over

poisoned

polluted

possessed

potted

potty

potulent

potvaliant

primed

pull a daniel boone

pull a shot-eye

putrefied

quaffed

raddled

rat-arsed

rat-assed

rat-legged

ratted

red-hot

redirected

reeking

reeling

rigid

ripped

roaring drunk

rocked

rooked

roped

rubbered

rummy

saturated

sauced

schlonkered

schnockered

schtumphy

schwacked

screwed

scuppered

seasoned

seeing triple

sewed up

shellacked

shickered

shikker

shit-faced

shit-housed

sideways (thank you, Jim)

shot

silly

sizzled

skunked

slambasted

slammed

slapping happy

slaughtered

slewed

slickered

slobbered

slopped

sloppy

sloshed

slozzled

sluiced

smashed

smoked

smuckered

smurfed up

snockered

snooted

so wet you ripple

souzed

soaked

sodden

sopped

sot

sotally tober

sottish

soused

sozzled

spanked

spiffed

spiflicated

spongy

squashed

squiffed

squiffy

staggering

steaming

steamy

stewed

stiff

stiffed

stinking

stinko

stinky

stocious

stoned

stonkered

stooped

stupid

stupified

sunk

swamped

tanglefooted

tanked

tanked-up

tatered

temulent

temulentive

the worse for liquor

three sheets in the wind

three sheets to the wind

throwed off

tiddly

tied one on

tight

tilted

tipped

tipsey

tipsy

tired and emotional

toasted

toe up

topped off

tore down

tore up

torqued

totalled

toxed

toxic

trashed

trolleyed

trollied

trounced

trousered

tuned up

tuned-out

tweeked

twisted

under the influence

under the table

under the weather

unsober

vulcanized

walloped

wankered

wankered

wasted

wearing a wobbly boot

well-bottled

wellied

well-oiled

whacked

whacked out

whiskeyfied

whiskey-frisky

whittled

wicked retarded

wiggy

wiped-out

wobbly

wombled

woozy

wracked

wrecked

zealous

ziced

zipped

zonked

zoused

zozzled

 

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