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/

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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.

   • (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

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

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
• 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)
• Breton: mezv (br)
• Bulgarian: пия́н (bg) (piján)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: borratxo (ca), embriac (ca), begut (ca)
• Chinese:

  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), kännissä (fi) (colloquial), jurrissa (colloquial)
• French: ivre (fr), soûl (fr), (informal) bourré (fr), (Quebec, informal) paqueté (fr)
• 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
• 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)
• Kabuverdianu: fusku
• Kazakh: мас (kk) (mas)
• Khmer: ស្រវឹង (km) (sra-weung)
• Korean: 취하다 (ko) (chwihada)
• Kuna: mummu
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سەرخۆش‎ (ku) (serxosh)

• Ladin: menà, ciòch, tëis, bëus
• Lao: ເມົາເຫລົ້າ (mao lao), ເມົາ (mao)

• Latin: ēbrius m, pōtus m, 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
• 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

• Old English: druncen
• Ossetian: расыг (rasyg)
• Persian: مست‎ (fa) (mast), پیان‎ (fa) (piyân), گرست‎ (fa) (garast)
• 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 (outdrinked), upity (strongly drunk or maked 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)
• 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 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)
• 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!

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• cheap drunk
• dry drunk
• expensive drunk
• good drunk

Translations

one who is drunk

• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: humalainen (fi)
• Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m (methysménos)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can

• Russian: пья́ный (ru) m (pʹjányj), пья́ная (ru) f (pʹjánaja)
• Spanish: borracho (es) m, ebrio (es) m
• 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)
• Basque: mozkorti
• Belarusian: п'я́ніца m (pʺjánica), прапо́йца m (prapójca)
• Bengali: মাতাল (matal)
• Bulgarian: пия́ница (bg) m (pijánica)
• Burmese: ယစ်ထုတ် (my) (yachtut)
• Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, embriac (ca) m
• Chamicuro: shinitac̈homalo
• 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)
• Esperanto: drinkemulo
• Estonian: joodik, alkohoolik, alkash
• Finnish: juoppo (fi)
• French: ivrogne (fr) m or 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)

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

• Hebrew: שיכור \ שִׁכּוֹר‎ (shikór)
• Hindi: पियक्कड़ (hi) (piyakkaṛ), मतवाला (hi) (matvālā)
• Hungarian: részeges (hu), korhely (hu), iszákos (hu), alkoholista (hu), (informal) piás (hu)
• 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, ubriaco (it) m, spugna (it) f, alcolista (it) m, avvinazzato (it)
• 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: ebriosus, 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)
• Maori: porohaurangi, whakahaurangi, kairama
• Mongolian: архичин (arhičin)
• 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 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)
• Swahili: mlevi (sw)
• 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

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

Anagrams

• Knurd, knurd