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boozy

adjective

  1. drunk
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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.

  1. Intoxicated by alcohol.
  2. 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 […]”

  3. 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.”

  4. 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.”