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Definition: Boozy |
BoozyAdjective1. Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boozy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Note: Boozy \Booz"y\, adjective. little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Boozy Partly intoxicated. (Russian, busa, millet-beer; Latin, buza, from buo, to fill; Welsh, bozi; Old Dutch, buyzen, to tipple; Coptic, bouza, intoxicating drink.) "In Egypt there is a beer called `Boozer,' which is intoxicating."- Morning Chronicle, Aug. 27th, 1852. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BoozySynonyms: bibulous (adj), drunken (adj), sottish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Boozy |
| English words defined with "boozy": bibulous, Bousy ♦ drunken ♦ sottish. (references) |
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| "Boozy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Boozy" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.56% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.44% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "boozy": boozy lunch ♦ boozy party ♦ boozy person ♦ have boozy breath. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "boozy": well-boozy. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
boozy creek | 10 |
boozy dj woozy | 5 |
boozy | 4 |
boozy clown | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "boozy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i dehur (crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references) | |
Arabic | مخمور (blind drunk, drunken, in one's cups, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, tipsy, well oiled), سكران (boozer, canned, drunk, drunken, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked, tipsy), ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tight, tipsy, well oiled). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino). (various references) | |
French | pochard (boozer). (various references) | |
German | versoffene (sottishly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részeges (boozer, inebriate, intemperate, sot, toper), piás (boozer, rummy, to be zipped, zonker), nagy piás. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oozybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intoxicado, ébrio (bacchanal, beery, crapulent, dram-drinker, drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, pissed, plastered, screwed, soaker, sot, sottish, sozzled, stewed, tippler, toper, vinous). (various references) | |
Romanian | beat (befuddled, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight, tipsy), beţiv (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, boozer, debauchee, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, intemperate, lush, reveller, sot, sponge, tippler, winebag), tãmâiat (fuddled, incensed, tight), cherchelit (elevated, fuddled, in liquor, jolly, mixed, moony, on the fuddle, queer, the worse for liquor, tipsy), aghesmuit (bosky, fuddled, tipsy), afumat (censer, fuddled, half-seasoned, hazy, jolly, moony, pickled, smoke dried, smoky, squiffed), aburit (covered with steam, flushing, glowing, misty, Reeky, smoky). (various references) | |
Russian | пьяный (blind drunk, blotto, drunken, foxed, high, in drink, in wine, inebriate, lush, pickled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, queer, screwed, sewed up, soused, sozzled, squiffed, tanked, wet, woozy). (various references) | |
Spanish | borracho (addicted to wine, alcoholic, boiled, boozer, capernoited, crapulent, dram-drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fuddled, groggily, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, lushed, malty, plastered, rummy, sloshed, souse, stewed, stoned, tight, well oiled). (various references) | |
Swedish | supig (crapulent, crapulous). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), içkici (bibber, bibulous, boozer, drinker, drunkard, drunken, habitual drinker, habitual drunkard, heavy drinker, lush, soak, sponge, tippler, toper, wino), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | say sưa tuý luý. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Boozy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Begozi, Benozzo, Biosyn, bizzy, boez, boogy, booky, booly, boomy, boony, Booseys, boosy, Booy, booya, booz, Boozey, Bouaziz, bouey, Bouvy, bouz, Bouzi, bouzy, bouzzy, boz, bozie, bozou, bozy, Bozzi, Bozzie, Bozzy, brooz, Brozie, buoz, buzby, buzi, Buzu, buzy, buzzy, koozy, loozy, obizzi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boozy" (pronounced buw"zē) |
| 3 | -uw" z ē | choosy, doozy, newsy, woozy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-o-y-z" | |
-1 letter: boyo, bozo, oozy. | |
-2 letters: boo, boy, yob, zoo. | |
-3 letters: bo, by, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-o-y-z" | |
+2 letters: boozily. | |
+3 letters: bryozoan. | |
+4 letters: bryozoans. | |
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