Wednesday, 20 March, 2002, 18:03 GMT bbc news
141 words for 'drunk'
For three years the E-cyclopedia has been charting the use and abuse of particular words behind the news headlines.
Now as part of our ongoing mission to reflect the diversity of the English language, here is a glossary of 141 euphemisms for just being drunk, suggested by the audience of BBC One's Booze programme.
You are free to add any more suggestions. Place names in brackets indicate a particular local usage. Potentially offensive words have been weeded out.
drunk,• adj, euphemisms include:
Ankled (Bristol)
Badgered, Banjaxed, Battered, Befuggered, Bernard Langered, Bladdered, Blasted, Blathered, Bleezin, Blitzed, Blootered, Blottoed, Bluttered, Boogaloo, Brahms & Liszt, Buckled, Burlin
Cabbaged, Chevy Chased, Clobbered
Decimated, Dot Cottoned, Druck-steaming, Drunk as a Lord, Drunk as a skunk
Etched
Fecked, Fleemered (Germany), Four to the floor
Gatted, Goosed, Got my beer goggles on, Guttered (Inverness)
Had a couple of shickers, Hammer-blowed, Hammered, Hanging, Having the whirlygigs, Howling
Inebriated, Intoxicated
Jahalered, Jaiked up (West of Scotland), Jan'd - abbrev for Jan Hammered, Jaxied, Jeremied, Jolly
Kaned
Lagged up, Lamped, Langered (Ireland) [also langers, langerated], Laroped, or alt. larrupt, Lashed, Leathered, Legless, Liquored up (South Carolina), Locked, Locked out of your mind (Ireland), Loo la
Mad wey it, Mandoo-ed, Mangled, Manky, Mashed, Meff'd, Merl Haggard, Merry, Minced, Ming-ho, Minging, Moired, Monged, Monkey-full, Mottled, Mullered
Newcastled, Nicely irrigated with horizontal lubricant
Off me pickle, Off me trolley, On a campaign, Out of it, Out yer tree
Paggered, Palintoshed, Paraletic, Peelywally, Peevied, Pickled, Pie-eyed, Pished, Plastered, Poleaxed, Pollatic
Rat-legged (Stockport), Ratted, Ravaged, Razzled, Reek-ho, Rendered, Rosy glow, Rubbered, Ruined
Saying hello to Mr Armitage, Scattered, Schindlers, Screwed, Scuttered (Dublin), Shedded [as in " My shed has collapsed taking most of the fence with it"], Slaughtered, Sloshed, Smashed, Snatered (Ireland), Snobbled (Wales), Sozzled, Spangled, Spannered, Spiffed, Spongelled, Squiffy, Steamin, Steampigged, Stocious, Stonkin
Tanked, Tashered, Tipsy, Trashed, Trollied, Troubled, Trousered, Twisted
Warped, Wasted, Wellied, With the fairies, Wrecked
Zombied
2006-08-31 13:27:30
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answered by anastasia 4
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drunk
adjective
Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal: ********, stewed. Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind.
2006-08-31 13:27:40
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answered by calculusheyhey 2
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pissed, maggotted, slaughtered, obliterated, hammered, trashed, off ya guts, off ya face, off ya lips, off ya tree, blind, f#@ked up, pissy, tickin, half cut, three parts stung, stumblin, pissed as a newt, got the wobbly boots on, liquid lunching it
2006-08-31 20:08:37
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answered by iloveongapumps 2
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******, f'ucked up, messed up, intoxicated,drunkard, rummy, sot, zonked, under the influence, inebriated, a little worse for wear - euphemism
banjaxed
blind
blind drunk
blotto
burlin'
buzzed
catching a good buzz
drunk as a lord
drunk as a skunk
floored
FUBARed (f*ed up beyond all recognition)
had one too many, had one over the eight - euphemism
halfcut
hammered
high (rare – usually refers to drugs)
high as a kite (often refers to drugs)
in one's altitudes
lamped - (Ireland)
langers - (Ireland)
legless
locked - (Ireland)
maggot
medicated (euphemistic)
merry (mildly drunk)
munted
Oliver, Oliver Twist
ossified - (Ireland)
over the limit - (Australia)
out of one's box, off one's box
out of one's head, off one's head (often refers to drugs)
out of one's tree, off one's tree
out of it
paralytic
pissed - (UK)
pixelated
plastered
polluted - (Ireland)
retarded
schnockered
scuttered - (Ireland)
shedded
shitfaced
shithoused
skunked
slammed
slarmied
slaughtered
sloshed
smashed
splashed
sozzled
squiffy
stoned (rare – usually refers to drugs)
tanked
three sheets to the wind
terried ("in reference to Terri Schiavo in her vegetative state")
tilted
tipsy (slightly drunk)
tired and emotional (British; jocular or euphemistic usage)
trashed
under the table
wasted
wrecked
arseholed
cunted
****** up
rat-arsed
pissed, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt
****-faced
Twatted
2006-08-31 13:27:28
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