boozy
adjective
- drunk
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːzi/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English booze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English boozy From booze + -y.
- Intoxicated by alcohol.
- Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
“Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]”
- Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
“We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.”
“Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.”
- Containing or cooked with alcohol.
“For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.”
“You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.”