Words at Play : 17 of the Finest Words for Drinking
Definition:
slang : mildly drunk
About the Word:
If the number of words that a language has to describe a specific thing somehow reflects on the people who speak that language, then the Englishspeaking people (or at least our collective livers) are in a rather sorry state.
We have hundreds of words describing alcohol and its various effects.
One article in The American Journal of Psychiatry from 1900 counted over 350 synonyms for drunk. Just among the forms that begin with 'drunk as a' we see that someone can be as drunk as an ass, a boiled owl, a brewer’s horse, a drum, a fiddler, a fish, a fly, a lord, a mouse, a pipey, a tapster, a rat, a sow, and a wheelbarrow.
Sometimes, however, one is only halfofanass drunk or less. Fortunately English allows for more precise measurement as with jingled, which describes those only mildly drunk.
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