whiskified

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Etymology[edit]

From whisky +‎ -ify +‎ -ed.

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whiskified (comparative more whiskified, superlative most whiskified)

  1. Drunk on whisky.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      Fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain.
    • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 584:
      Of the various types of field-officer upon whom he could have modelled himself as regards the men, he had chosen that of the genial, rubicund, slightly whiskyfied C.O. who finishes every sentence with the words: ‘Eh, what?’
    • 1980, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky:
      But Tom — rather, the kids' dad — had passed from her as surely as if he had been tumbled into the grave with the whiskeyfied rancher.

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