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Definition: Drunk |
DrunkAdjective1. Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated". 2. As if under the influence of alcohol; "felt intoxicated by her success"; "drunk with excitement". Noun1. A chronic drinker. 2. Someone who is intoxicated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Drunk The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Gen. 9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly condemned (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7, 8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not uncommon among the Israelites. The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being drunk with sorrow, and with the wine of God's wrath (Isa. 63:6; Jer. 51:57; Ezek. 23:33). To "add drunkenness to thirst" (Deut. 29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised Version "to destroy the moist with the dry", i.e., the well-watered equally with the dry land, meaning that the effect of such walking in the imagination of their own hearts would be to destroy one and all. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors, indicating profligacy and loss of employment. You will be disgraced by stooping to forgery or theft. If drunk on wine, you will be fortunate in trade and love-making, and will scale exalted heights in literary pursuits. This dream is always the bearer of aesthetic experiences. To see others in a drunken condition, foretells for you, and probably others, unhappy states. Drunkenness in all forms is unreliable as a good dream. All classes are warned by this dream to shift their thoughts into more healthful channels. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Drunk (Anglo-Saxon drinc-an.) Drunk as a fiddler. The reference is to the fiddler at wakes, fairs, and on board ship, who used to be paid in liquor for playing to rustic dancers. Drunk as a lord. Before the great temperance movement set in, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, those who could afford to drink thought it quite comme il faut to drink two, three, or even more bottles of port wine for dinner, and few dinners ended without placing the guests under the table in a hopeless state of intoxication. The temperate habits of the last quarter of the nineteenth century renders this phrase now almost unintelligible. Drunk as blazes. "Blazes" of course means the devil. Drunk as Chloe. Chloe, or rather Cloe (2 syl.), is the cobbler's wife of Linden Grove, to whom Prior, the poet, was attached. She was notorious for her drinking habits. Drunk as David's sow. (See Davy's Sow.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Breton (mezv ), English (pissed), French (allumé, allumée), Italian (fuori come un balcone), Yiddish (vashnukad). (references) |
Slang | Pissed, wasted, fucked up. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | DRUNK. Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's sow. See DAVID'S SOW. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i.e. ethanol) to a sufficient degree to impair mental and motor functioning.Many societies have cultural stereotypes associated with drunkenness - where the ability to drink vast quantities of alcohol is thought to be worthy of respect. Arguably, such an attitude can be regarded as pathological, leading as it often does to alcoholism.
Drunkness is generally felt to be a good thing by the drunk person, at least till it wears off and the associated hangover starts.
Effects of alcohol on the body
Alcohol is a potent drug and consequently it has a range of side effects, some pleasurable and some less so. The amount consumed and the circumstances under which the alcohol was taken can play a large part in determining the extent of drunkenness. Drinking after eating a large meal is much less likely to induce drunkenness compared to taking in large amounts on an empty stomach. This is because the presence of food in the stomach is able to slow the absorption of alcohol in to the bloodstream, diluting its effects over a longer period of time.
Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once alcohol is in the bloodstream it can diffuse into nearly every tissue of the body. This can contribute to the correspondingly dramatic effect seen when large amounts are taken.
Alcohol has a biphasic relationship on the body - its effects transform over an evening of drinking, from initial feelings of relaxation and cheerfulness to blurred vision and problems with coordination. After excessive drinking unconsciousness can often occur, and in extreme cases (when the concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream is over about 500mg per 100ml) alcohol can even cause death. Death can also be caused by vomiting blocking the trachea and causing choking. An appropriate first aid response to an unconscious, drunken person is a manuver known as the recovery position.
Moderate doses
Although alcohol is commonly thought of purely as a depressant, at low concentrations it can actually stimulate certain areas of the brain. Alcohol sensitises the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) system of the brain, making it more receptive to the neurotransmitter glutamate. Stimulated areas include the cortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are responsible for thinking and pleasure seeking. Another one of alcohol's agreeable effects is the relaxative state it puts the body into. This could be caused by heightened alpha brain waves surging across the brain. Alpha waves are observed (with the aid of ECGs) when the body is relaxed. Heightened pulses are thought to correspond to higher levels of enjoyment.
A well-known side effect of alcohol is the loosening it has on inhibitions. Areas of the brain responsible for planning and motor learning are dulled. A related effect, caused by even low levels of alcohol, is the tendency for people to become more animated in speech and movement. This is due to increased metabolism in areas of the brain associated with movement, such as the nigrostriatal pathway. This causes reward systems in the brain to become more active, and combined with released inhibition can induce people to behave in an uncharacteristically loud and cheerful manner.
A large part of the behaviourial changes associated with drunkenness is learned. A scientific study found that people drinking in a social setting significally and dramatically altered their behaviour immediately after the first sip of alcohol, well before the chemical itself could have filtered through to the nervous system.
Excessive doses
The effect alcohol has on the NMDA receptors, earlier responsible for pleasurable stimulation, turns from a blessing to a curse later in the evening if further alcohol is consumed. NMDA receptors start to become unresponsive, slowing thought in the areas of the brain they are responsible for. Contributing to this effect is the activity which alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid system (GABA). The GABA systen is known to inhibit activity in the brain, and would cause other areas to slow down. GABA could also be responsible for the memory impairment that many people experience. It has been asserted that GABA signals interfere with the registration and consolidation stages of memory formation. As the GABA system is found in the hippocampus, which is thought to play a large role in memory formation, this is thought to be possible.
Blurred vision is another common symptom of drunkenness. Alcohol seems to suppress the metabolism of glucose in the brain. The occipital lobe, the part of the brain responsible for interpreting vision, has been found to become especially impaired, consuming 29 per cent less glucose than it should. With less glucose metabolism, the cells work less efficiently and aren't able to process what we see properly. Severe drunkenness and diabetic coma can be mistaken for each other, with potentially serious medical consequences for diabetics.
Often after lots of alcohol has been consumed, it is possible to get the sense that the room is spinning, technically called positional alcohol nystagmus. Although motor areas of the brain are usually heavily affected at this time, it is not directly the brain which is responsible here; alcohol has affected the organss responsible for balance, present in the ears. Balance in the body is monitored principally by two systems: the semicircular canals, and the utricle and saccule pair. Inside both of these is a flexible blob called a cupola, which moves when the body moves. This brushes against hairs in the ear, creating nerve impulses that travel through the 8th Cranial Nerve in to the brain. However, when alcohol gets in to the bloodstream it distorts the shape of the cupola, causing it to keep pressing on to the hairs. These 'fake' nerve impulse tell your brain that the body is rotating, causing disorientation and making the eyes spin round to compensate. When this wears off (usually taking until the following morning) the brain has adjusted to the spinning, and interprets not spinning as spinning in the opposite direction causing further disorientation. This is often a common symptom of the hangover.
Extreme over-indulgence can lead to alcohol poisoning and death due to respiratory depression.
A person who is an alcoholic or habitually drunk is often referred to as a 'drunk'.
Slang terms for being drunk:
The ancients believed that putting an amethyst in the glass or in one's mouth while drinking prevented drunkenness.
- bladdered
- blitzed
- blootered
- blotto
- bombed
- caned
- hammered
- legless
- liquored up
- loaded
- one over the eight
- pie-eyed
- pissed (variant; "Pissed as a newt")
- plastered
- rat-arsed / ratted
- shit-faced
- sloshed
- smashed
- soused
- sozzled
- squiffy
- steaming
- stewed
- tanked
- three sheets to/in the wind
- tiddly
- tipsy
- tired and emotional
- wasted
- wiped out
See also:
- alcoholism
- blind drunk
- ethanol
- alcoholic beverages
- alcopops
- pub crawl
Further reading
- Stuart Walton: Out of It. A Cultural History of Intoxication (Penguin Books, 2002) (ISBN 0140279776).
- 'Modern Drunkard Magazine', A humorous magazine about drink and the art of getting drunk.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drunkenness."
Synonyms: DrunkSynonyms: inebriated (adj), intoxicated (adj), drunkard (n), inebriate (n), rummy (n), sot (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sober (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Make one drunk; Adjective: inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head. | |
Drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow. | |
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. | |
Improvement | View in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. |
Resentment | Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ". |
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Screenplays | I must've drunk 17 Dr. Peppers (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Hey look, mister, we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast and we don't need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.) Doc's real drunk tonight (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego) Can we lock up and get drunk now (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) So why 3 instead of 6? You know a drunk's just going to drink twice as many beers to get drunk, so you not only have a drunk on your hands, you have a drunk who's fat and gross (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.) | |
Lyrics | Mom drunk off of wine (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) When you get drunk, I'll be the wine (I'll Be There For You; performing artist: Bon Jovi) And ev'ry time I've had to play while people sat there drunk. (LODI; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Drink some wine 'till we get drunk (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) Just like he been drinkin, like he drunk (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous) | |
Clever | Legally drunk (references; author: unknown) Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case (references; author: unknown) A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts. (references; author: unknown) Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign (references; author: unknown) You're trailer trash when you think loading a dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shaolin Drunk Fighter (1969) Drunk (1964) Dead Drunk (2002) The Shaolin Drunk Monkey (1985) | |
Song Titles | Mamma Gets Drunk (performing artist: Lou Santacroce) Four Nights Drunk (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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 | [Two statesmen having drunk their fill...] / Tim Bobbin [i.e. John Collier] inv. et pinx. T. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Only One Thing Tougher Than The New Drunk Driving Law. : Riding Your Bike In January. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | More And More Drunk Drivers Are Seeing The Light. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Friends don't let friends drive drunk. : drive your friend home have your firend sleep over call a cab. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Look, School's Already Hard Enough : Why Would I Want To Get Drunk And Make It Worse?. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Drunk driver and figure of death. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Getting drunk doesn't make you -- tall -- rich -- strong ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Drunk driving" by Earl Estrera Commentary: "A shot to simulate the blurry image on your head when driving under the influence of alcohol." | "Two Drunk Penguins" by Chilli D Commentary: "Boulders Beach South Africa Cape Town, Paradise for Penguins." |
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 | Uninhibited; laughing; hysterical; beside oneself; carried away; corybantic; crazy; delighted; drunk; ecstatic; enthused; frenetic; frenzied; happy; intoxicated; mad; overexcited; overwrought; rabid; rapturous; thrilled; transported; wild. |
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Epictetus | He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. |
Hannah More | Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. |
Lord Byron | Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. |
Samuel Johnson | Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. |
Sir Richard Burton | When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | It's unpleasantly like being drunk. "What's so unpleasant about being drunk? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He got him drunk at will and at his fancy |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I was out last night on a yellow drunk with Horan and Goggins |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We was drunk at a dance |
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Health | Once S. Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. (references) | |
More than a gallon of water may be needed every 24 hours, and a third of that must be drunk during the night. (references) | ||
Patients can be treated with oral rehydration solution, a prepackaged mixture of sugar and salts to be mixed with water and drunk in large amounts. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Czech Republic | On June 15, former television reporter Tomas Smrcek was acquitted of charges that he deliberately endangered classified information in a 1999 report on possible Czech intelligence service cover-up of one of its official's drunk driving offense. (references) |
Human Rights | El Salvador | Allegedly Fernando Naves Mendoza was drunk and had a weapon. (references) |
Peru | Police accused him of robbing a taxi driver and claimed that he was drunk at the time of arrest. (references) | |
Travel | Uk | UK penalties for drunk driving are stiff and often result in prison sentences. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
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Melanie Griffith | I woke up in the hospital and I had been very drunk and I was walking in the crosswalk and the drunk driver hit me. |
Michael J. Fox | Well, I partied a lot when I was younger. And that was just, again, having to do with this kind of this imposter syndrome any minute someone is going to bang on the door and tell me good-bye. So I thought, well, I'll just be drunk when they get here. |
Rush Limbaugh | We send money to the poor people you step over as you stumble home drunk on bubbly. |
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| "Drunk" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 61.55% of the time. "Drunk" is used about 1,250 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) | 61.55% | 769 | 8,941 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36.29% | 454 | 12,849 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 1.84% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,250 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "drunk". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Rohgah | N/A | Biblical | Filled or drunk with talk |
| Ruth | N/A | Biblical | Drunk |
| Rue | N/A | English | Drunk |
| Ruthie | N/A | English | Drunk |
| Rut | N/A | German | Drunk |
| Rut | N/A | Italian | Drunk |
| Ruta | N/A | Lithuanian | Drunk |
| Rut | N/A | Polish | Drunk |
| Rut | N/A | Scandinavian | Drunk |
| Rut | N/A | Spanish | Drunk |
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Expressions using "drunk": appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober ♦ as drunk as a fiddler ♦ as drunk as a sow ♦ be drunk ♦ become drunk ♦ becoming drunk ♦ being drunk ♦ blind drunk ♦ completely drunk ♦ dead drunk ♦ drink oneself drunk ♦ Drunk and Disorderly ♦ drunk and incapable ♦ drunk as a fiddler ♦ drunk as a lord ♦ drunk as a piper ♦ drunk as a skunk ♦ drunk as a wheelbarrow ♦ drunk as an owl ♦ drunk as Chloe ♦ drunk as David's sow ♦ drunk driving ♦ drunk mouse syndrome ♦ get drunk ♦ get smb. drunk ♦ getting drunk ♦ got drunk ♦ incapable drunk ♦ make drunk ♦ roaring drunk ♦ rolling drunk ♦ slightly drunk ♦ somewhat drunk ♦ To get drunk ♦ to have drunk wine ape ♦ To have drunk wine of ape ♦ very drunk ♦ what! drunk again!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drunk": drunk-and-disorderly, drunk-driver, drunk-driving, drunk-in-charge, drunk-looking, drunk-person, drunk-proof. | |
Ending with "drunk": dead-drunk, dry-drunk, half-drunk, punch-drunk, skunk-drunk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drunk | 4,228 | drunk driving accident | 148 |
drunk girl | 3,034 | drunk nude | 136 |
drunk driving | 886 | drunk coeds | 132 |
drunk chick | 549 | baby drunk sitter | 123 |
drunk teen | 477 | drunk wife | 122 |
punch drunk love | 468 | drunk chix | 116 |
drunk college girl | 336 | passed out drunk | 113 |
drunk sex | 332 | drunk driving picture | 112 |
drunk woman | 304 | drunk lesbian | 106 |
drunk sluts | 253 | drunk driving statistics | 105 |
drunk party | 241 | break drunk girl spring | 101 |
drunk picture | 217 | drunk bitch | 95 |
drunk pic | 207 | drunk girl pic | 91 |
drunk easy girl | 206 | drunk party picture | 88 |
drunk slut | 189 | drunk people | 84 |
drunk moms | 187 | college drunk | 84 |
drunk driver | 184 | drunk babe | 80 |
naked drunk | 167 | drunk tv | 77 |
mother against drunk driving | 153 | drunk stupid | 74 |
party drunk girl | 150 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "drunk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | dronk (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Albanian | dehur (intoxicated, sober), xurxull (intoxicated, sozzled), i pirë (drunken, groggy, high, loaded, muzzy), i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفلة سكر, سكير (alcoholic, bacchanalian, blind drunk, drinker, drunken, hard drinker, heavy, rummy), سكران (boozer, boozy, canned, drunken, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked, tipsy), عربيد (bacchic, becoming drunk, riotous, roisterer, roistering), السكران (bloated), الثمل, ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, 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 | пиян човек (inebriate), пиян (cockeyed, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, tight, under the table, wet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 酗 , 醉酒, 湎 . (various references) | |
Czech | piják (blotter, soak, sot), opilec (drunkard), opilý (crapulous, drunken, fuddled, high, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, soused, tipsy), alkoholik (alcoholic, drinker). (various references) | |
Danish | drukken (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Dutch | zat (full, intoxicated, replete, satisfied), dronken (intoxicated), beschonken (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ebriulo, ebria (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Farsi | مستی (Inebriety, Languor, Rut, Spree), مست (Drunken, Groggy, Sot, Souse, Tipsy), مخمور, خیس (Rainy, Sodden, Soggy, Sop, Soppy, Wet), دوران مستی . (various references) | |
Finnish | päihtynyt (intoxicated, tight, tipsy), juovuksissa (intoxicated), juopunut (intoxicated), juoppo (addicted to drink, drinker, drunkard), humalainen (intoxicated). (various references) | |
French | ivre (becoming drunk, drunken). (various references) | |
Frisian | dronken (intoxicated). (various references) | |
German | betrunken (drunken, groggily, inebriated, intoxicated), trunken (drunken, inebriated, intoxicated). (various references) | |
Greek | στουπί στο μεθύσι (half seas over), μεθυσμένοσ (drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, soused, tight), μεθυσμένος (drunken), πιωμένοσ, φέσι (fez, flop, tarboosh), αόρ. του drink (drank). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | dehur (intoxicated, sober). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוכר (intoxicated, tipsy), שתוי (half seas over, inebrite, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy), שכור (drunkard, inebriate, intoxicated, lushy, sot, toper), שרוי בגלופין. (various references) | |
Hungarian | részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, bosky, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, laced, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tanked, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out, woozy). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ölvaður (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendam, mabuk (drunker, tipsy, trance). (various references) | |
Irish | ólta (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Italian | ubriaco (drunken, inebriate, intoxicated, plastered, tight), brillo (intoxicated, squiffy, tight, tipsy), ubriacone (barfly, drunkard, sot, swiller, toper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | へばり付く (bungler, clumsy, greenhorn, poor hand, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to cling to, untrustworthy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へべれけ (untrustworthy). (various references) | |
Korean | 술취하는 (Drunken). (various references) | |
Manx | scooyrit (canned, inebriated, intoxicated, lit up, oiled, pickled, plastered, stoned), meshtallagh (boozer, inebriate, intoxicant, intoxicating, promiscuity), iut, iuit, er meshtey (inebriated, intoxicated). (various references) | |
Norwegian | full (full). (various references) | |
Papiamen | fuma (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unkdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | borracho (drunkard, rummy, screwed, squab, toper), bêbedo, bêbado (alcoholic, bacchic, bibber, bloat, boozer, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, light-headed, pissed, screwed, smashed, tippler, tipsy, toper), ébrio (bacchanal, beery, boozy, crapulent, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, pissed, plastered, screwed, soaker, sot, sottish, sozzled, stewed, tippler, toper, vinous). (various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã în stare de ebrietate, participiu trecut de la drink, om beat (inebriate), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, 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), beţie (booze, carousal, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse, sheet), îmbãtat (intoxicated, ravishing). (various references) | |
Russian | опьяненный (besotted), попойка (booze-up, buster, carousal, carouse, debauch, fuddle, guzzle, hellbender, razzle-dazzle, rouse, wassail, wet night), пить пьяный. (various references) | |
Scottish | misg (drunkenness, intoxication : air mhisg). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pijan (cock eyed, cockeye, crocked, groggy, inebriate, inebriated, loaded, potted, smashed, sottish, soused, sozzled, stewed, stinking, stoned), alkoholičar (alcoholic, drunkard). (various references) | |
Spanish | borracho (addicted to wine, alcoholic, boiled, boozer, boozy, capernoited, crapulent, dram-drinker, drunkard, drunken, fuddled, groggily, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, lushed, malty, plastered, rummy, sloshed, souse, stewed, stoned, tight, well oiled), ebrio (blind, drunkard, drunken, inebriate, intoxicated), bebido (gassed, indulged, lushed). (various references) | |
Sranan | drungu (drunkenness, inebriety, intoxicated). (various references) | |
Swedish | full (complete, filled, full, integral, intoxicated, plenary, soused, stiff, tight, undivided), drucken (drunken, groggy, inbriate, intoxicated, tipsy), rusig (intoxicated). (various references) | |
Thai | เมา (get a can on, ramped, rat-arsed, sloshed, sottish, sozzled, spaced-out, tie one on, tipsy), คนเมา (drunkard, soaker). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoşluk (being drunk, crapulence, drunkenness, ebriety, grogginess, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, jag, souse), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, 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), içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, jag, souse, wassail), ayyax (alcoholic), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino). (various references) | |
Turkmen | serhoю. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сп'янілий (fuddled, intoxicated, noggy), нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, erratic, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, top heavy, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, 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) | |
Welsh | meddw (inebriated, intoxicated), brwysg (vigorous). (various references) | |
Yucatec | kala'an (intoxicated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | appotus, crapulatus, ebria, ebriacus, ebriam, ebrii, ebriis, ebriorum, ebrius, madidus, mattus, potum, potumque, potus, vinolentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 39 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oudeiV piwn palaion euqewV qelei neon legei gar o palaioV crhstoteroV estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nemo bibens vetus statim vult novum dicit enim vetus melius est |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And ne drincð nan man eald win and wylle sona þæt niwe: he cwyþ. þæt ealde is betere; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And no man drynkynge the elde, wole anoon the newe; for he seith, The olde is the betere. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Also no man yt drinketh olde wine strayght waye can awaye with newe for he sayeth ye olde is plesauter. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | No man also having drank old wine, immediately desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 39 |
| Cebuano | Ug walay tawo nga sa makainom na siyag daang bino mangandoy pa sa bag-o, kay siya magaingon man, `Maayo ang daan.`" |
| Croatian | "I nitko pijuæ staro, ne zaželi novoga. Ta veli se: 'Valja staro!'" |
| Danish | Og ingen, som har drukket den gamle, vil have den unge; thi han siger: Den gamle er god." |
| Dutch | En niemand, die ouden drinkt, begeert terstond nieuwen; want hij zegt: De oude is beter. |
| Finnish | Eikä kukaan, joka juo vanhaa viiniä, halua nuorta, sillä hän sanoo: `Vanha on hyvää`." |
| French | Et personne, après avoir bu du vin vieux, ne veut du nouveau, car il dit: Le vieux est bon. |
| German | Und niemand ist, der vom alten trinkt und wolle bald den neuen; denn er spricht: Der alte ist milder. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Begitu juga tidak ada orang yang mau minum anggur baru setelah minum anggur tua. 'Anggur tua itu lebih enak,' katanya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tiada seorang pun yang minum air anggur yang lama, ingin akan air anggur yang baharu, karena katanya: Yang lama itulah sedap rasanya." |
| Italian | Nessuno poi che beve il vino vecchio desidera il nuovo, perché dice: Il vecchio è buono!». |
| Manx Gaelic | Chamoo ta dooinney erbee, erreish da v'er n'iu shenn feeyn, chelleeragh shirrey feeyn noa: son t'eh gra, Ta'n shenn ny share. |
| Maori | Ka inu hoki te tangata i te waina tawhito, e kore ia e hiahia ki te mea hou: e mea hoki ia, Erangi te mea tawhito. |
| Norwegian | Og ingen som har drukket gammel vin, har lyst på ny; han sier: den gamle er god. |
| Portuguese | E ninguém, tendo bebido o velho, quer o novo; porque diz: O velho é bom. |
| Rumanian | Wi nimeni, dupq ce a bqut vin vechi, nu voiewte vin nou, cqci zice: ,Este mai bun cel vechi`` |
| Shuar | Yaunchu nawamu úmana nuka yamarman nakitrattui. "Yaunchu nawamu Imiá penkeraiti" Tiártatui" Tímiayi Jesus. |
| Spanish | Y ninguno que bebe lo añejo quiere el nuevo, porque dice: "Lo añejo es lo mejor." |
| Swahili | Wala hakuna mtu ambaye hutamani kunywa divai mpya baada ya kunywa ya zamani, kwani husema: `Ile ya zamani ni nzuri zaidi."` |
| Swedish | Och ingen som har druckit gammalt vin vill sedan gärna hava nytt; ty han tycker, att det gamla är bättre." |
| Uma | "Uma ria tauna to dota nginu anggur to bo'u ane oti-i-damo mpo'inu to hae. Apa' na'uli' mpai': `Anggur to hae to motomo'.'" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drunk": drunkard, drunkards, drunken, drunkenly, drunkenness, drunkennesses, drunker, drunkest, drunks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "drunk": outdrunk, overdrunk, undrunk. (additional references) | |
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"Drunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dkunk, dreenk, drek, drenk, Dreznik, drong, dronk, Dronke, dront, dropnik, Drouyn, Druck, Drueke, Drukov, drun, drune, drunke, druns, drunt, drynke, dunka, durk, durn, dwunk, dwurnik, dyrynk, grunk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drunk" (pronounced dru"ngk) |
| 4 | -r u" ng k | shrunk, trunk. |
| 3 | -u" ng k | bunk, chunk, clunk, debunk, Dunk, flunk, funk, hunk, junk, monk, plunk, punk, skunk, Spunk, stunk, sunk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-k-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: dunk, durn, knur, nurd. | |
-2 letters: dun, run, urd, urn. | |
-3 letters: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-k-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: drunks, dunker. | |
+2 letters: drunken, drunker, dunkers, knurled, runkled, trunked, undrunk, unraked. | |
+3 letters: bunkered, debunker, drouking, drunkard, drunkest, hunkered, junkyard, outdrank, outdrink, outdrunk, unbraked, uncorked, unforked, unkinder, unmarked, unranked, unworked. | |
+4 letters: debunkers, drunkards, drunkenly, junkyards, outdrinks, outranked, overdrunk, rockbound, rockhound, uncracked, undertake, undertook, unfrocked. | |
+5 letters: background, bankrupted, groundwork, kerplunked, krugerrand, rockhounds, soundtrack, underskirt, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertrick, unkindlier, unprovoked, unpuckered, unremarked, workaround, wunderkind. | |
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