boozy

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booze

(bo͞oz) Slang

a. Hard liquor.

b. An alcoholic beverage.

2. A drinking spree.

intr.v. boozed, booz·ing, booz·es

To drink alcoholic beverages excessively or chronically.

[Alteration of obsolete bouse, from Middle English bousen, to drink to excess, from Middle Dutch būsen.]

booz′er n.

booz′i·ly adv.

booz′y adj.

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boozy

(ˈbuːzɪ)

adj, boozier or booziest

informal inclined to or involving excessive drinking of alcohol; drunken: a boozy lecturer; a boozy party.

ˈbooziness n

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booz•y

(ˈbu zi)

adj. booz•i•er, booz•i•est.

drunken or addicted to liquor.

[1520–30]

booz′i•ly, adv.

booz′i•ness, n.

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Adj.

boozy - given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior"

bibulous, drunken, sottish

drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

boozy

adjective hard-drinking, tippling, red-nosed, intemperate, beery, gin-sodden a cheerful, boozy chain-smoker

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boozy

adjective

Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

Translations

boozy

[ˈbuːzɪ] ADJ [person] → aficionado a la bebida, borracho; [party] → donde se bebe bastante; [song etc] → tabernario

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boozy

adj (+er) (inf) look, face → versoffen (inf); a boozy person → ein Schluckspecht m (inf); (stronger) → ein versoffenes Loch (sl); to have boozy breath → eine Fahne haben (inf); boozy party → Sauferei f (inf); boozy lunch → Essen nt → mit reichlich zu trinken

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boozy

[ˈbuːzɪ] adj (fam) (person) → che alza spesso il gomito

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