/dɹʌŋk/
OriginFrom Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
“So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it wa”
“"What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"”
- usuallyElated or emboldened.
“Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.”
“drunk with recent prosperity”
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
“I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.”
- While drunk.
“He was arrested for driving drunk.”
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
“She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.”
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
“Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.”
- A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
“Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.”
“Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into o”
“Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welc”
- A drunken state.
“Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!”
- form-of, participle, pastpast participle of drink
- Southern-US, form-of, pastsimple past of drink
Formsdrunker(comparative) · drunkest(superlative) · more drunk(comparative) · most drunk(superlative) · drunks(plural)