drunk

See also: Drunk

English

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 getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Pronunciation

• enPR: drŭngk, IPA^(key): /dɹʌŋk/, /d͡ʒɹʌŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Adjective

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:

     So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

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.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     drunk with recent prosperity

4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 32:42:

     I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol): boozy, sottish
• (saturated with moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
• (slightly intoxicated):

tipsy, buzzed

Derived terms

• drunkalogue
• drunkard
• drunk as a cunt
• drunk as a lord
• drunk as a skunk
• drunk dial
• drunk driver
• drunk driving
• drunken
• drunkenness
• drunkish
• drunklike
• drunkness
• drunkorexia
• drunk tank
• drunk text
• get drunk
• punch drunk

 

Translations

intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol

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

  Egyptian Arabic: سكران‎ (sakrān)

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

• Armenian: խմած (hy) (xmac), հարբած (hy) (harbac)
• Asturian: borrachu
• Azerbaijani: sərxoş (az), içkili, kefli (az), xumar, məst
• Bashkir: иҫерек (iθerek)
• Basque: mozkor
• Belarusian: п'я́ны (pʺjány)
• Bengali: মাতাল (matal)
• Bikol Central: burat (bcl), buyong
• Breton: mezv (br)
• Bulgarian: пия́н (bg) (piján)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca), begut (ca)
• Chechen: вехна m (weχna), вехана m (weχana), йехана f (jeχana), йехна f (jeχna), бехна pl (beχna), бехана pl (beχana), деха pl (deχa), мелла (mella)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏴᏍᏕᏓ (uyvsdeda)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醉 (zeoi³)

  Mandarin: 醉 (zh) (zuì)

• Czech: opilý (cs) m
• Danish: fuld (da), beruset (da), drukken, lakket til, bedugget, anløben, overrislet, stænket, snaldret, stiv
• Dutch: dronken (nl), zat (nl), bezopen (nl), blauw (nl), beschonken (nl)
• Elfdalian: druttjin, full
• 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 (fi), päihtynyt (fi) (formal), kännissä (fi) (colloquial), humaltunut (fi), jurrissa (colloquial), hiprakassa (slightly drunk), huppelissa (childish), juovuksissa (fi) (formal), naamoissa (slang), lärvissä (slang), naamat (slang), lärvit (slang), kuosissa (slang), perse olalla (fi) (very drunk, informal), niiteissä (slang)
• French: ivre (fr), soûl (fr), (informal) bourré (fr), (Quebec, informal) paqueté (fr)

  Old French: yvre m

  Middle French: yvre m or f

• Galician: bébedo (gl), borracho (gl), peneque (gl)
• Georgian: მთვრალი (mtvrali), ნასვამი (nasvami)
• German: betrunken (de), besoffen (de), dicht (de), zu (de), blau (de), voll (de)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽𐍃 (drugkans)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m (methysménos), πιωμένος (el) m (pioménos), σουρωμένος (el) m (souroménos)

  Ancient: μέθυσος (méthusos)

• Greenlandic: aalakoortoq
• Hawaiian: ʻona
• Hebrew: שִׁכּוֹר‎ (shikór), שָׁתוּי‎ m (shatúy)
• Hindi: मतवाला (hi) (matvālā), शराबी (hi) (śarābī), मत्त (hi) (matt), मदहोश (hi) (madhoś)
• Hungarian: ittas (hu), részeg (hu)
• Icelandic: fullur (is) m, drukkinn m
• Ilocano: nabartek
• Indonesian: mabuk (id)
• Irish: ólta, ar meisce
• Italian: ubriaco (it), avvinazzato (it), ebbro (it), sborniato (it), sbronzo (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)
• Jarai: măt tơpai
• Kabuverdianu: fusku
• Kazakh: мас (kk) (mas)
• Khmer: ស្រវឹង (km) (sra-weung)

• Korean: 취하다 (ko) (chwihada)
• Kuna: mummu
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەرخۆش‎ (ku) (serxoş)

• Ladin: menà, ciòch, tëis, bëus
• Lao: ເມົາເຫຼົ້າ (mao lao), ເມົາ (mao), ຂີ້ເຫຼົ້າ (lo) (khī lao)
• Latin: ēbrius, pōtus, ūvidus, ēlixus (slang)
• Latvian: dzēris
• Limburgish: zaat (li)
• Lithuanian: girtas
• Low German:

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

• Luxembourgish: ukréien, voll (lb)
• Macedonian: пијан m (pijan), опиен m (opien)
• Malay: mabuk
• Maltese: fis-sakra
• Manx: er meshtey, scooyrit
• Maori: haurangi
• Mauritian Creole: nisa
• Middle English: drunken
• Mongolian: согтуу (mn) (sogtuu)
• Norman: bédé-ouinne m or f, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue m or f, chonmé, en bouaisson m or f, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, gris, ivre m or f, souîn, soûl
• Northern Sami: gárremiin
• Norwegian: drita

  Bokmål: full (no), beruset

  Nynorsk: full

• Occitan: ebri (oc), embriac (oc)
• Old English: druncen
• Ossetian: расыг (rasyg)
• Persian: مست‎ (fa) (mast), پیان‎ (fa) (piyân), گرست‎ (fa) (garast)
• Plautdietsch: bedrunken, besopen
• Polish: pijany (pl), wstawiony pf (drunk a bit), spity pf (drunk a lot or sleeping), podpity (pl) (drunk a bit), napity pf (drunk or drunk a bit), zapity (sleeping or died), przepity (outdrunk), upity (strongly drunk or made drunk by somebody)
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bêbedo (pt), ébrio (pt), alcoolizado
• Quechua: macasga, sinka, şinka, machasqa
• Romanian: beat (ro), băut (ro), îmbătat (ro)
• Romansch: storn, tschuc, blau
• 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 (sk)
• Slovene: pijan (sl)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es) m, pedo (es) m (informal), tomado (es) m (Latin America), beodo (es) m, embriagado (es) m, bebido (es) m, alcoholizado (es) m (formal), escabiado (es) m, escabio (es) m (Latin America, colloquial), ebrio (es) m
• Swahili: mlevi (sw)
• Swedish: drucken (sv), full (sv), berusad (sv), packad (sv) (colloquial), dragen (sv) (familiar)
• Tagalog: lasing, lango (tl), barik
• Thai: ขี้เหล้า (kîi-lâo), เมาเหล้า (mao lâo)
• Tibetan: མྱོས་པ (myos pa), སྨྱོ་བ (smyo ba)
• Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'я́ний (pʺjányj)
• Urdu: متوالا‎ (matvālā)
• Vietnamese: say (vi), xỉn (vi)
• Walloon: sô (wa) m, sôle (wa) f
• Welsh: meddw (cy), wedi (cy) meddwi (cy)
• West Frisian: dronken
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: שיכּור‎ (shiker), באַטרונקען‎ (batrunken)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

elated by emotion

• Bulgarian: опиянен (bg) (opijanen), въодушевен (bg) (vǎoduševen)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca)
• Estonian: joovastuses
• Finnish: juopunut (fi)
• French: ivre (fr)
• 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.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

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
• dry drunk
• expensive drunk
• good drunk

 

Translations

one who is drunk

• Bashkir: иҫерек (iθerek)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, bufat
• Chechen: вехана m (weχana), вехна m (weχna), йехана f (jeχana), йехна f (jeχna), мелла (mella)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: humalainen (fi), känniläinen (fi) (colloquial)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m (methysménos)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: meshtallagh m
• Russian: пья́ный (ru) m (pʹjányj), пья́ная (ru) f (pʹjánaja)
• Spanish: borracho (es) m, ebrio (es) m, escabiador m (Latin America, colloquial)
• Tagalog: lasing
• Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)

habitual drinker

• Afrikaans: dronkaard
• Arabic: سِكِّير‎ m (sikkīr), خِمِّير‎ m (ḵimmīr), مُعَاقِر‎ m (muʿāqir)

  Egyptian Arabic: سكير‎ m (sikkīr)

• Armenian: գինեմոլ (hy) (ginemol)
• Bashkir: эскесе (eskese)
• Basque: mozkorti
• Belarusian: п'я́ніца m (pʺjánica), прапо́йца m (prapójca)
• Bengali: মাতাল (matal)
• Bikol Central:

  Bikol Legazpi: parabuyong

  Bikol Naga: buratsero

• Bulgarian: пия́ница (bg) m (pijánica)
• Burmese: ယစ်ထုတ် (my) (yachtut)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, embriac (ca) m
• Chamicuro: shinitac̈homalo
• Chechen: молушверг (molušwerg)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏴᏍᏕᏍᎩ (uyvsdesgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉漢 (zh), 醉汉 (zh) (zuìhàn), 醉酒者, 酗酒者 (zuìjiǔ zhě); 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) m
• Esperanto: drinkemulo
• Estonian: joodik, alkohoolik, alkash
• Finnish: juoppo (fi), alkoholisti (fi)
• French: ivrogne (fr) m or f, buveur (fr) m, soûlard (fr) m
• Galician: bébedo (gl) m, borracho (gl) m
• Georgian: ლოთი (loti)
• German: Trinker (de) m, Säufer (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰 m (afdrugkja)
• Greek: μέθυσος (el) m (méthysos), μεθύστακας (el) m (methýstakas)

  Ancient: κοτύλων m (kotúlōn), φιλοπότης m (philopótēs)

• Hebrew: שיכור \ שִׁכּוֹר‎ m (shikór)
• Hindi: पियक्कड़ (hi) ? (piyakkaṛ), मतवाला (hi) ? (matvālā)
• Hungarian: részeges (hu), korhely (hu), iszákos (hu), alkoholista (hu), (informal) piás (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: ebriemo
• Indonesian: pemabuk (id) m or f
• Irish: meisceoir m, pótaire m, druncaeir m
• Italian: ubriacone (it) m, ubriacona (it) f, alcolizzato (it) m, beone m, ubriaco (it) m, spugna (it) f, alcolista (it) m, avvinazzato (it) m
• Japanese: 飲兵衛 (のんべえ, nonbei), 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 (soraa saon), សុរាមត្ត (soraa matta), ប្រមឹក (km) (prɑmək)
• Korean: 술고래 (sulgorae), 주정꾼 (jujeongkkun), 주정뱅이 (ko) (jujeongbaeng-i)

• Kriol: drangkinmen
• Ladin: ciucaton m
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ēbriōsus m, bibōnius m, madulsa m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: пијаница m or f (pijanica), локач m (lokač), бекрија m (bekrija) (archaic, poetic)
• Malay: pemabuk, kaki botol (idiomatic)
• Manx: sheer-veshtallagh m
• Maori: porohaurangi, whakahaurangi, kairama
• Mongolian: архичин (arhičin)
• Neapolitan: 'mbriacòne
• Ngazidja Comorian: mlevi
• Norman: bouaissonneux m, ivrouongne m, soûlard m
• Norwegian: fyllik m
• Polish: pijak (pl) m, pijaczka (pl) f, menel (pl) m
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt) m, bêbedo (pt) m, beberrão (pt) m, bebum (pt) m or 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 or f (pʹjánica), алка́ш (ru) m (alkáš), пропо́йца (ru) m (propójca), пьянчу́га (ru) m or f (pʹjančúga), пьянь (ru) f (pʹjanʹ), выпиво́ха (ru) m or f (vypivóxa), забулды́га (ru) m or f (zabuldýga), буха́рик (ru) m (buxárik), пьянчу́жка (ru) m or f (pʹjančúžka)
• Sanskrit: मत्त (sa) m (matta)
• 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
• Slovene: pijanec (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žrěck m

• Southern Altai: аракызак (arakïzak)
• Spanish: borracho (es) m, bebedor (es) m, tomador (es) m (Latin America), escabiador m (Latin America, colloquial)
• Swahili: mlevi (sw) 1/2
• Swedish: fyllo (sv) n
• Tagalog: lasinggero, lasenggo
• Telugu: తాగుబోతు (te) (tāgubōtu)
• Thai: นักเลงสุรา (nák-leeng-sù-raa)
• Trinidadian Creole English: drinka' n, rum drinka' n
• Turkish: ayyaş (tr), içkici (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'я́ниця m (pʺjánycja), пия́к m (pyják), пия́ка m (pyjáka), пите́ць m (pytécʹ), запива́йло m (zapyvájlo)
• Uzbek: ichkilikboz (uz), araqxoʻr (uz), piyonista (uz)
• Vietnamese: ma men (vi)
• Welsh: meddwyn m
• Yiddish: שיכּור‎ m (shiker)

drinking-bout — see drinking-bout

drunken state

• Finnish: humala (fi), känni (fi) (colloquial), jurri (fi) (colloquial), juopumus (fi), humalatila (fi), päihtymys (fi)
• French: ébriété (fr) f, ivresse (fr) f
• Greek: μέθη (el) f (méthi)

• Italian: ubriachezza (it) f, ebbrezza (it) f
• Spanish: escabio (es) m (Latin America, colloquial), embriaguez (es) f
• Turkish: sarhoşluk (tr)

Verb

drunk

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

Anagrams

• Knurd, knurd