v.; inebriety†, inebriation; ebriety†, ebriosity†; insobriety;
intoxication; temulency†, bibacity†, wine bibbing; comtation†, potation;
deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.].
oinomania†, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism;
mania a potu [Fr.].
drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine;
punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much;
dram; beer &c (beverage) 298; aguardiente†; apple brandy, applejack;
brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning [Slang], champagne,
cocktail; gin, ginsling†; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps
[U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.],
whisky, xeres†.
drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber†, wine-bibber, lush; hard
drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love
pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal,
Bacchanalian; Bacchal†, Bacchante†; devotee to Bacchus†; bum [U.S.],
guzzler, tavern haunter.
V. get drunk, be drunk &c adj.; see double; take a drop too much, take
a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse [Fr.], guzzle,
swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on,
have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the
shrine of Bacchus†; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like
a fish; have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace,
take a hair of the dog that bit you.
liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle,
pass the bottle; toss off &c (drink up) 298; go to the alehouse, go to
the public house.
make one drunk &c adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle†, get
into one's head.
Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious†, inebriate, inebriated; in
one's cups; in a state of intoxication &c n.; temulent†, temulentive†;
bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou†, fresh, merry,
elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant†,
glorious; potulent†; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled,
screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled†, sewed up [Slang],
lushy [Slang], nappy†, muddled, muzzy†, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous†,
dead drunk.
woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.
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.
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.
drunken, bibacious†, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink,
addicted to the bottle; toping &c v..
Phr. nunc est bibendum [Lat.]; Bacchus ever fair and young [Dryden];
drink down all unkindness [Merry Wives]; O that men should put an enemy
in their mouths to steal away their brains [Othello].