drunk

See also: Drunk

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drŭngk, IPA^(key): /drʌŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Adjective

drunk ‎(comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

   • Macaulay

     drunk with recent prosperity

4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
   • Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42

     I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol): blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, snockered, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also Wikisaurus:drunk
• (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol):

Derived terms

Terms derived from drunk

drunkard drunk as a skunk drunk driver drunk driving

drunken drunkenness punch drunk drunk tank

Translations

intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol

• Albanian: i dehur (sq)
• Arabic: سَكْرَان ‎(sakrān)

  Moroccan Arabic: سكران m ‎(skrān), سكرانة f ‎(skrāna)

• Armenian: խմած (hy) ‎(xmac), հարբած (hy) ‎(harbac)
• Asturian: borrachu
• Bashkir: иҫерек ‎(iθerek)
• Basque: mozkor
• Belarusian: п'я́ны ‎(pʺjány)
• Bengali: মাতাল ‎(matalô)
• Breton: mezv (br)
• Bulgarian: пия́н (bg) ‎(piján)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉 (zh) ‎(zuì)

• Czech: opilý (cs) m
• Danish: fuld (da)
• Dutch: dronken (nl), zat (nl), bezopen (nl), blauw (nl), beschonken (nl)
• Emilian: inberiàg m, imberiêg m, puôs m, ciòcc m, ciùc m
• Esperanto: ebria (eo)
• Estonian: purjus (et)
• Faroese: fullur, drukkin
• Finnish: humalainen (fi), juopunut (fi), humalassa, kännissä (colloquial), jurrissa (colloquial)
• French: ivre (fr), saoul (fr), (informal) bourré (fr), (Quebec, informal) paqueté (fr)
• Georgian: მთვრალი ‎(mtvrali), ნასვამი ‎(nasvami)
• German: betrunken (de), besoffen (de), dicht (de), zu (de)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m ‎(methysménos), πιωμένος (el) m ‎(pioménos)
• Hawaiian: ʻona
• Hebrew: שִׁכּוֹר ‎(shikkór), שָׁתוּי m ‎(shatúy)
• Hindi: मतवाला (hi) ‎(matvālā), शराबी (hi) ‎(śarābī), मत्त (hi) ‎(matta), मदहोश (hi) ‎(madahōśa)
• Hungarian: ittas (hu), részeg (hu)
• Icelandic: fullur (is) m, drukkinn m
• Indonesian: mabuk (id)
• Irish: ólta, ar meisce
• Italian: ubriaco (it), avvinazzato (it), ebbro (it), sborniato (it)
• Japanese: 酔っ払い ‎(よっぱらい, yopparai), 酔い (ja) ‎(よい, yoi), 酔っぱらった ‎(よっぱらった, yopparatta)
• Norman: bédé-ouinne m, f, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue m, f, chonmé, en bouaisson m, f, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, gris, ivre m, f, souîn, soûl
• Kazakh: мас (kk) ‎(mas)
• Khmer: ស្រវឹង (km) ‎(sra-weung)
• Korean: 취하다 (ko) ‎(chwihada)

• Kuna: mummu
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سه‌رخۆش (ku) ‎(serxosh)

• Ladin: menà, ciòch, tëis, bëus
• Lao: ເມົາເຫລົ້າ ‎(mao lao), ເມົາ ‎(mao)
• Latin: ēbrius m, pōtus m, ūvidus, ūvidus
• Latvian: dzēris
• Lithuanian: girtas
• Lojban: xalbebna
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: ^{(please verify)} doen (Gronings)

• Macedonian: пијан m ‎(pijan), опиен m ‎(opien)
• Malay: mabuk
• Maltese: fis-sakra
• Manx: er meshtey, scooyrit
• Maori: haurangi
• Mauritian Creole: nisa
• Mongolian: согтуу (mn) ‎(sogtuu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: full (no), beruset

  Nynorsk: full

• Old English: druncen
• Persian: مست (fa) ‎(mast), پیان (fa) ‎(piyân), گرست (fa) ‎(garast)
• Polish: pijany (pl)
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bêbedo (pt), ébrio (pt), alcoolizado
• Romanian: beat (ro), băut (ro), îmbătat (ro)
• Russian: пья́ный (ru) ‎(pʹjányj), (colloquial) бухо́й (ru) ‎(buxój)
• Sanskrit: मत्त (sa) m ‎(matta), प्रमत्त (sa) ‎(pramatta)
• Scottish Gaelic: air mhisg
• Serbo-Croatian: pìjan (sh), пѝјан
• Slovak: opitý
• Slovene: pijan (sl)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es) m, pedo (es) m (informal)
• Swahili: mlevi (sw)
• Swedish: drucken (sv), full (sv), berusad (sv), packad (sv) (colloquial), dragen (sv) (familiar)
• Tagalog: lasing, lango (tl), barik
• Thai: ขี้เหล้า ‎(kêe lâo), เมาเหล้า ‎(mao lâo)
• Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'я́ний ‎(pʺjányj)
• Urdu: متوالا ‎(matvālā)
• Vietnamese: say rượu (vi)
• Walloon: sô (wa) m, sôle (wa) f
• Welsh: meddw (cy), wedi meddwi (cy)
• West Frisian: dronken
• Yiddish: שיכּור ‎(shiker), באַטרונקען ‎(batrunken)

elated by emotion

• Bulgarian: опиянен (bg) ‎(opijanen), въодушевен (bg) ‎(vǎoduševen)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca)
• Finnish: juopunut (fi)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m ‎(methysménos)
• Italian: ubriaco (it), ebbro (it)
• Macedonian: опиен m ‎(opien)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beruset

• Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bêbedo (pt)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} beat de ... (ro)
• Russian: опьянённый (ru) ‎(opʹjanjónnyj)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es)

Noun

drunk ‎(plural drunks)

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10

     Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.

3. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:

     Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

4. A drunken state.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

     Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Derived terms

• cheap drunk
• expensive drunk
• good drunk

Synonyms

• (habitual drinker): alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Wikisaurus:drunkard

Translations

one who is drunk

• Finnish: humalainen (fi)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m ‎(methysménos)

• Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)

habitual drinker

• Ancient Greek: κοτύλων m ‎(kotúlōn)
• Arabic: سِكِّير m ‎(sikkīr), خِمِّير m ‎(ḵimmīr), مُعَاقِر m ‎(muʿāqir)
• Armenian: գինեմոլ (hy) ‎(ginemol)
• Bengali: মাতাল ‎(mātāla)
• Bulgarian: пияница (bg) m ‎(pijanica)
• Burmese: ယစ်ထုတ် (my) ‎(yachtut)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, embriac (ca) m
• Chamicuro: shinitac̈homalo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉汉 (zh), 醉酒者, 酗酒者; 酒鬼 (zh) ‎(jiǔguǐ), 醉鬼 (zh) ‎(zuìguǐ), 酒徒 (zh) ‎(jiǔtú), 酒客 (zh) ‎(jiǔkè)

• Czech: opilec (cs) m
• Dutch: dronkaard (nl) m, zatlap (nl)
• Esperanto: drinkemulo
• Estonian: joodik, alkohoolik, alkash
• Finnish: juoppo (fi)
• French: ivrogne (fr) m, f, buveur (fr) m, soûlard (fr) m
• Georgian: ლოთი ‎(loti)
• German: Trinker (de) m, Säufer (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰 m ‎(afdrugkja)
• Greek: μέθυσος (el) m ‎(méthysos), μεθύστακας (el) m ‎(methýstakas)
• Hebrew: שיכור \ שִׁכּוֹר ‎(shikór)
• Hindi: पियक्कड़ (hi) ‎(piyakkaṛ), मतवाला (hi) ‎(matavālā)
• Hungarian: részeges (hu), korhely (hu), iszákos (hu), alkoholista (hu), (informal) piás (hu)
• Ido: ebriemo
• Indonesian: pemabuk (id) m, f
• Irish: meisceoir m, pótaire m
• Italian: ubriacone (it) m, ubriacona (it) f, alcolizzato (it) m, beone, ubriaco (it) m, spugna (it) f, alcolista (it) m, avvinazzato (it)
• Japanese: 飲兵衛 ‎(のんべえ, nonbē), 飲んだくれ ‎(nondakure), 愛飲家 ‎(あいいんか, aiinka), 酒飲み ‎(さけのみ, sakenomi), 小虎 ‎(こどら, kodora), 辛党 ‎(からとう, karatō)
• Khmer: សុរាសោណ្ឌ ‎(so’raa saondii), សុរាមត្ត ‎(so’raa matta), ប្រមឹក (km) ‎(prɑmək)

• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kriol: drangkinmen
• Ladin: ciucaton m
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ebriosus
• Macedonian: пијаница m, f ‎(pijanica), локач m ‎(lokač), бекрија m ‎(bekrija) (archaic, poetic)
• Malay: pemabuk, kaki botol (idiomatic)
• Maori: porohaurangi, whakahaurangi, kairama
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: mlevi
• Norman: bouaissonneux m, ivrouongne m, soûlard m
• Polish: pijak (pl) m, pijaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt) m, bêbedo (pt) m, beberrão (pt) m, bebum (pt) m, f
• Romagnol: imbriagòn m, inciucchèd m
• Romanian: alcoolic (ro) m, bețiv (ro) m, bețivă (ro) f, bețivan (ro) m, bețivană f
• Russian: пья́ница (ru) m, f ‎(pʹjánica)
• Scottish Gaelic: drongair m, pòitear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пијанац m, пијаница f

  Roman: pijánac (sh) m, pìjanica (sh) f

• Sicilian: 'mmriacuni m, 'mmriacuna f
• Slovak: opilec m, pijan m
• Southern Altai: аракызак ‎(arakızak)
• Spanish: borracho (es) m, bebedor (es) m, tomador (es) m (Latin America)
• Swahili: mlevi (sw)
• Swedish: fyllo (sv) n
• Tagalog: lasinggero
• Telugu: తాగుబోతు (te) ‎(tāgubōtu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Trinidadian Creole English: drinka' n, rum drinka' n
• Turkish: ayyaş (tr), içkici (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: שיכּור m ‎(shiker)

drinking-bout

• Georgian: ლოთობა ‎(lotoba)
• Greek: μέθη (el) f ‎(méthi), μεθύσι (el) n ‎(methýsi)
• Finnish: ryyppyputki
• Mandarin: 烂醉 (zh)
• Portuguese: embriaguez (pt) f

• Quechua: machay
• Russian: запо́й (ru) m ‎(zapój)
• Spanish: ebriedad (es) f, borrachera (es) f
• Turkish: sarhoşluk (tr)

drunken state

• Finnish: humala (fi)
• Greek: μέθη (el) f ‎(méthi)

• Italian: ubriachezza (it), ebbrezza (it)
• Turkish: sarhoşluk (tr)

Verb

drunk

1. past participle of drink
2. (Southern US) simple past tense of drink