Definition
Drunk.
Origins
First used by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967, in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of cabinet minister George Brown. It is now used as a stock phrase and euphemism to avoid litigation for libel, and the phrase has spread well beyond the magazine.
In Context
- "In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights."
- "There's nothing like a singalong with tired and emotional Lib Dems [headline]"
Also Said As
- Adrian Quist
- adrip
- aled up
- all mops and brooms
- arseholed
- a sheet in the wind
- a sheet in the wind's eye
- bedrunken
- befuddled
- beliquored
- besotted
- besotten
- bevvied
- bibacious
- bibulous
- binned
- bingoed
- bladdered
- blasted
- blewed
- blind
- blind drunk
- blitzed
- blocked
- blootered
- blottoed
- blue
- bollocksed
- bombed
- boozy
- bosky
- bottled
- Brahms
- Brahms and Liszt
- budgy
- bungalowed
- bungfu
- burlin'
- canned
- clobbered
- corned
- cocked
- cockeyed
- crapulous
- crocked
- cunted
- cup-shot
- cup-shotten
- cut
- dead drunk
- destroyed
- disguised
- drunk
- drunk as a piper
- drunked up
- drunken
- ebriated
- ebriose
- elephant's
- elephant's trunk
- elevated
- faced
- fap
- fershnickered
- flooey
- floored
- flush
- flushed
- flustered
- fluted
- fluthered
- feeling no pain
- fou
- four sheets in the wind
- fresh
- fried
- frosted
- fuckered up
- fuckfaced
- fuddled
- full
- fuzzy-headed
- fuzzy-minded
- gassed
- gattered
- gee-eyed
- gesuip
- ginned
- gished
- glorious
- groggified
- groggy
- half polluted
- half cut
- half lit
- half seas over
- hammered
- have drink taken
- have the sun in one's eyes
- hazed
- high as a Georgia pine
- high as a kite
- high
- hog-whimpering
- honkers
- hooched up
- hooted
- hoovered
- hosed
- how came you so
- impaired
- in liquor
- in one's altitudes
- in one's cups
- in the bag
- in the drink
- inebriate
- inebriated
- inebrious
- insober
- insobrietous
- inter pocula
- jaked
- jarred
- juiced
- juiced up
- kaylied
- kisky
- lamped
- langered
- langers
- larruped
- lash
- lashed
- lathered
- legless
- liquored up
- liquory
- lit
- loaded
- looped
- loopy
- loose
- lubed
- lubed up
- lubricated
- lushed
- mad with it
- maggot
- maggoted
- mashed
- maudlin
- medicated
- messed up
- monged
- mortal
- mortalled
- Mozart and Liszt
- muddled
- muggy
- mullered
- munted
- muzzy
- MWI
- nappy
- newted
- nimptopsical
- obfuscated
- obliviated
- off one's box
- off one's head
- off one's tits
- oiled
- oiled up
- Oliver
- Oliver Twist
- on the ran tan
- ossified
- out of it
- out of one's box
- out of one's face
- out of one's head
- out of sight
- overcome
- overrefreshed
- overtaken
- paralytic
- parlatic
- pickled
- pie-eyed
- pixilated
- plastered
- ploughed
- plowed
- polluted
- potshot
- potted
- pounded
- primed
- puggled
- quisby
- raddled
- rat-arsed
- ratted
- razzled
- ripe
- ripped
- rolling
- rubbered
- sauced
- sauced up
- scammered
- schloshed
- schnockered
- screwed
- scuttered
- sewed up
- shedded
- shellacked
- shicker
- shickered
- shitty
- skunked
- slammed
- slarmied
- slizzard
- sloppy drunk
- sloshed
- smashed
- snockered
- snookered
- snozzled
- snuffy
- soaken
- sodden
- soshed
- sotted
- sottish
- souped-up
- soused
- sozzled
- sozzly
- spanceled
- spannered
- spiffed
- splashed
- spongy
- sprung
- squiffed
- steamboats
- stewed
- stinking
- stinko
- stoated
- stoned
- stonkered
- stotious
- strut
- swacked
- tanked
- tanked up
- temulent
- temulentive
- three sheets in the wind
- three sheets to the wind
- throwed
- tight as a tick
- tight
- tilted
- tippled
- tipsy
- tired and emotional
- toasted
- top-heavy
- top-heavy with drink
- toping
- trashed
- tuned
- twatfaced
- twisted
- wastey
- wazzed
- wazzocked
- well-oiled
- wellied
- wet
- whittled
- withered
- wobbly
- woozy
- worse for liquor
- worse for wear
- wrecked
- zoned
- zonked
- zooted
- zorched
- zotzed