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Definition: HALF SEAS OVER |
HALF SEAS OVER1. Half drunk. 2. Half drunk. [Colloq.] --Spectator. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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