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HALF SEAS OVER

Definition: HALF SEAS OVER

HALF SEAS OVER

1. Half drunk.

2. Half drunk. [Colloq.] --Spectator.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: HALF SEAS OVER

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

HALF SEAS OVER. Almost drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: HALF SEAS OVER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Drunkenness

Inter pocula; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: HALF SEAS OVER

Language Translations for "HALF SEAS OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

насред морето, полупиян (half-drunk, screwed, tipsy), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, lit, mellow, merry, muzzy, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podnapilý (jolly, slightly drunk, tipsy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στουπί στο μεθύσι (drunk). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שתוי (drunk, inebrite, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félig részeg (half cocked). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alfhay eassay overay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

pe jumãtate beat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пьяница (bibber, bloat, boozer, dram-drinker, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, malt-worm, soaker, sot, swiller, tippler, toper, tosspot, winebag, winebibber, wino), подвыпивший (beery, elevated, exhilarated, half-seas-over, jolly, mellow, merry, screwed, tipsy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polupijan, na pola puta preko mora. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

medio borracho, a medio camino (halfway). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halvfull (half full, half-full, maudlin, tipsy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

на півшляху. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF SEAS OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-l-o-r-s-s-v"

-2 letters: flashovers.

-3 letters: flashover, oversales, shovelers.

-4 letters: fearless, flashers, fleshers, haverels, overleaf, oversale, overseas, reshaves, resolves, safroles, seashore, severals, shelvers, shoveler.

-5 letters: areolae, areolas, areoles, ashlars, ashlers, earless, favelas, flasher, flashes, flavors, flesher, fleshes, freshes, halvers, haverel, healers, hearses, heavers, herself, lashers, lassoer, laveers, leasers, leashes, leavers, loafers, oarless, oversea, resales, reseals, reshave, reshoes, resoles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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