aspirined

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From aspirin +‎ -ed.

Adjective[edit]

aspirined

  1. Under the influence of aspirin.
    • 1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, Plume, published 1999, →ISBN, page 30:
      Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.
    • 2001, Shashi Tharoor, Riot, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
      When the father protested that he could not possibly take the boy back home with so many visits left to make, Priscilla declared the child could rest at our place, aspirined and blanketed, and be picked up by his father at the end of the dhobi’s day.
    • 2010, Alexandra Sokoloff, chapter 9, in The Shifters (The Keepers Series), Harlequin, →ISBN, page 101:
      Dressed, aspirined and hidden behind oversized sunglasses, Caitlin emerged from her front doorway into a sadistically glaring sun.
  2. Having aspirin.
    • 1950, Philip B. Kaye, Taffy, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, page 48:
      The aspirined wine still swung the world in a slow circle, from which he listened to the crickets in the silence-wrapped darkness of the backyards.
    • 1951, Frank Scully, editor, The Best of Fun in Bed, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., page 146:
      Give him some aspirined insect-powder.
    • 1954, Venture, page 46:
      Slowly, he lowered the flowers back into the vase and the aspirined water.