drunk
Pronunciation: /dɹʌŋk/
The English word “drunk” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened.
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
adverb
- While drunk.
noun
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
- A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
- A drunken state.
Etymology
From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish…
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