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 trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Pronunciation

enPR: drŭngk, IPA^(key): /dɹʌŋk/, /d͡ʒɹʌŋk/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Adjective

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 557”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
  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.
- 2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013:
  "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
(derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, 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:
  drunk with recent prosperity
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:42:
  I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

Synonyms

(intoxicated from alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
(habitually or frequently intoxicated from alcohol): boozy, sottish
(saturated with moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
(slightly intoxicated): tipsy, buzzed

Derived terms

Descendants

Sranan Tongo: drungu
- Aukan: duungu
- Saramaccan: döö́ngö

Translations

intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol

Afrikaans: dronk (af)
Albanian: i dehur (sq)
Arabic: سَكْرَان m (sakrān), ثَمِل m (ṯamil)
Egyptian Arabic: سكران (sakrān)

Hijazi Arabic: سكران (sakrān)

Moroccan Arabic: سكران m (skrān), سكرانة f (skrāna)
Armenian: խմած (hy) (xmac), հարբած (hy) (harbac)
Asturian: borrachu
Azerbaijani: içkili, sərxoş (az), kefli (az)
Bashkir: иҫерек (iśerek)
Basque: mozkor
Belarusian: п'я́ны (pʺjány)
Bengali: মাতাল (bn) (matal), মস্ত (bn) (mosto)
Big Nambas: im'ənm'ən (literally “to be drunk”)
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)
Cebuano: hubog
Chechen: вехна m (vexna), вехана m (vexana), йехана f (jexana), йехна f (jexna), бехна pl (bexna), бехана pl (bexana), деха pl (dexa), 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 (fo), drukkin
Finnish: juovuksissa (fi), juopunut (fi), humalainen (fi), humalassa (fi), humaltunut (fi), päihtynyt (fi) (standard or formal), kännissä (fi), päissään (fi), tillin-tallin, (informal), hönöissä, jurrissa, kekkulissa, naamat, naamoissa, kuoseissa, lärvit (fi), niiteissä, perse olalla (fi), perseet (fi), pienessä sievässä, pöhnässä (fi), tuiterissa, umpitunnelissa (fi) (colloquial), hiprakassa, huppelissa, hutikassa (childish or slightly drunk), kännissä kuin käki
French: ivre (fr), soûl (fr), (informal) bourré (fr), (Quebec, informal) paqueté (fr), saoul (fr), schlass (fr) (colloquial)
Middle French: yvre

Old French: yvre
Galician: bébedo (gl), borracho (gl) m, 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 (he) (shikór), שָׁתוּי m (shatúy)
Hiligaynon: hubog
Hindi: मतवाला (hi) (matvālā), शराबी (hi) (śarābī), मत्त (hi) (matt), मदहोश (hi) (madhoś)
Hungarian: ittas (hu), részeg (hu)
Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: fullur (is) m, drukkinn m
Ilocano: nabartek
Indonesian: mabuk (id)
Ingrian: humalikas
Irish: ólta, ar meisce
Italian: ubriaco (it), avvinazzato (it), ebbro (it), sborniato (it), sbronzo (it)
Ivatan: mavuuk
Japanese: 酔っ払い (ja) (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 (mas)
Khiamniungan Naga: thīngtòkhāi
Khmer: ស្រវឹង (km) (sra-weung)
Korean: 취하다 (ko) (chwihada)
Kuna: mummu
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سەرخۆش (serxoş)

Northern Kurdish: serxweş (ku), mest (ku), sermest (ku), serxweş (ku), mest (ku), sermest (ku)
Ladin: menà, ciòch, tëis, bëus, trat, avëi na bëusa
Lao: ເມົາເຫຼົ້າ (mao lao), ເມົາ (mao), ຂີ້ເຫຼົ້າ (khī lao)
Latin: ēbrius, pōtus, ūvidus, ēlixus (slang)
Latvian: dzēris
Limburgish: zaat (li)
Lithuanian: girtas
Louisiana Creole French: sou, ho, piké, chak
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: ^{(please verify)} doen (Gronings)
Luxembourgish: ukréien, voll (lb)
Macedonian: пијан m (pijan), опиен m (opien)
Malay: mabuk (ms)
Maltese: fis-sakra
Manx: er meshtey, scooyrit
Maori: haurangi
Maranao: obog
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
Old Norse: ǫlr, drukkinn
Oromo: machooftuu
Ossetian: расыг (rasyg)
Ottoman Turkish: سرخوش (sarhoş), مخمور (mahmur)
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), nietrzeźwy (pl)
Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bêbedo (pt), ébrio (pt), alcoolizado (pt)
Quechua: macasga, sinka, şinka, machasqa
Romagnol: imbariêg
Romanian: beat (ro), băut (ro), îmbătat (ro)
Romansch: storn, tschuc, blau
Russian: пья́ный (ru) (pʹjányj), бухо́й (ru) (buxój) (colloquial)
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), pedo (es) (informal), tomado (es) (Latin America), beodo (es), embriagado (es), bebido (es), alcoholizado (es) (formal), escabiado (es), escabio (es) (Latin America, colloquial), zampado (es) m (Peru), jumado (es) (Latin America), guasca (es) (Peru), huasca (es) (Peru), wasca (Peru)
Sranan Tongo: drungu
Swahili: mlevi (sw)
Swedish: drucken (sv), full (sv), berusad (sv), redlös (sv), överförfriskad (sv), stupfull (sv), dragen (sv) (familiar), packad (sv) (colloquial), aspackad (sv) (colloquial), dyngrak (sv) (colloquial), askalas (colloquial), dretfull (colloquial)
Tagalog: lasing, lango (tl), barik
Thai: ขี้เหล้า (kîi-lâo), เมา เหล้า (mao lâo)
Tibetan: མྱོས་པ (myos pa), སྨྱོ་བ (smyo ba)
Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)
Turkmen: esrek, mes
Ukrainian: п'я́ний (pʺjányj), бухи́й (buxýj) (slang), ме́кнутий (méknutyj) (slang), нали́ганий (nalýhanyj) (very ("fully") drunk; somewhat vulgar), нетвере́зий (netverézyj)
Urdu: متوالا (matvālā)
Vietnamese: say (vi), xỉn (vi)
Walloon: sô (wa) m, sôle (wa) f
Waray-Waray: hubog
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)
Korean: 취(醉)하다 (ko) (chwihada)
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)

One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard
- 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.
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
- 1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4:
  Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- 1983 December 10, Veneita Porter, “A Little Help From Mom”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
  Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into our shared hallway.
- 2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):
  Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
A drunken state.
- 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 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

Translations

one who is drunk

Bashkir: иҫерек (iśerek)
Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, borratxa (ca) f, bufat (ca)
Chechen: вехана m (vexana), вехна m (vexna), йехана f (jexana), йехна f (jexna), мелла (mella)
Esperanto: ebriulo
Estonian: joobnu
Finnish: humalainen (fi), känniläinen (fi) (colloquial)
Greek: μεθυσμένος (el) m (methysménos)
Ingrian: humalikas
Korean: 취객(醉客) (chwigaek)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Manx: meshtallagh m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
Polish: nietrzeźwy (pl) m, nietrzeźwa f
Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bebum (pt), bebo (pt)
Russian: пья́ный (ru) m (pʹjányj), пья́ная (ru) f (pʹjánaja)
Spanish: borracho (es) m, ebrio (es) m, alcoholizado (es) m, zampado (es) m (Peru)
Tagalog: lasing
Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr)

habitual drinker

Afrikaans: dronkaard
Arabic: سِكِّير m (sikkīr), خِمِّير m (ḵimmīr), مُعَاقِر m (muʕāqir)
Egyptian Arabic: سكير m (sikkīr)
Armenian: գինեմոլ (hy) (ginemol)
Bashkir: эскесе (eskese)
Basque: mozkorti
Belarusian: п'я́ніца m (pʺjánica), прапо́йца m (prapójca)
Bengali: মাতাল (bn) (matal)
Bikol Central:
Bikol Legazpi: parabuyong

Bikol Naga: buratsero (bcl)
Bulgarian: пия́ница (bg) m (pijánica)
Burmese: ယစ်ထုတ် (my) (yachtut)
Catalan: borratxo (ca) m, borratxa (ca) f, embriac (ca) m, embriaca f
Chamicuro: shinitac̈homalo
Chechen: молушверг (molušʷerg)
Cherokee: ᎤᏴᏍᏕᏍᎩ (uyvsdesgi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醉漢 / 醉汉 (zh) (zuìhàn), 醉酒者 (zuìjiǔ zhě), 酗酒者 (xùjiǔ zhě); 酒鬼 (zh) (jiǔguǐ), 醉鬼 (zh) (zuìguǐ), 酒徒 (zh) (jiǔtú), 酒客 (zh) (jiǔkè)
Czech: opilec (cs) m, opilkyně f, pijan (cs) m, pijanka f, piják (cs) m, pijačka f
Danish: dranker m
Dutch: dronkaard (nl) m, zatlap (nl) m
Esperanto: drinkemulo, drinkemulino (female)
Estonian: joodik, alkohoolik
Finnish: juoppo (fi), alkoholisti (fi)
French: ivrogne (fr) m or f, buveur (fr) m, buveuse (fr) f, soûlard (fr) m, soulard (fr) m, soûlarde (fr) f, soularde (fr) f, pochetron (fr) m, pochetronne (fr) f, poivrot (fr) m, alcoolo (fr) m or f, pochard (fr) m, pocharde (fr) f, soiffard (fr) m, soiffarde (fr) f, picoleur (fr) m, picoleuse f, tonneau (fr) m, soûlaud (fr) m, soûlaude (fr) f, soûlon (fr) m (Quebec) (Switzerland), soûlonne (fr) f (Quebec) (Switzerland), arsouille (fr) f
Galician: bébedo (gl) m, bébeda f, borracho (gl) m, borracha f
Georgian: ლოთი (loti)
German: Trinker (de) m, Trinkerin (de) f, Säufer (de) m, Säuferin (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰 m (afdrugkja)
Greek: μέθυσος (el) m (méthysos), μεθύστακας (el) m (methýstakas), μπεκρής (el) m (bekrís), μπεκρού (el) f (bekroú)
Ancient: κοτύλων m (kotúlōn), φιλοπότης m (philopótēs)
Hebrew: שיכור \ שִׁכּוֹר (he) 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
Ingrian: joomari
Irish: meisceoir m, pótaire m, druncaeir m
Italian: ubriacone (it) m, ubriacona (it) f, alcolizzato (it) m, alcolizzata (it) f, beone m, ubriaco (it) m, ubriaca (it) f, spugna (it) f, alcolista (it) m or f, alcoolista (it) m or f, avvinazzato (it) m, avvinazzata f
Japanese: 飲兵衛 (ja) (のんべえ, nonbei), 飲んだくれ (ja) (nondakure), 愛飲家 (あいいんか, aiinka), 酒飲み (ja) (さけのみ, sakenomi), 小虎 (こどら, kodora), 辛党 (ja) (からとう, karatō)
Khmer: សុរាសោណ្ឌ (soraa saon), សុរាមត្ត (soraamat), 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: dzērājs m, dzērāja f
Lithuanian: girtuoklis m, girtuoklė f
Macedonian: пијаница m or f (pijanica), локач m (lokač), бекрија m (bekrija) (archaic, poetic)
Malay: pemabuk, kaki botol (ms) (idiomatic)
Malayalam: മദ്യപാനി (madyapāni), കുടിയൻ (ml) (kuṭiyaṉ)
Manx: sheer-veshtallagh m
Maori: porohaurangi, whakahaurangi, kairama
Mongolian: архичин (arxičin)
Neapolitan: 'mbriacòne
Ngazidja Comorian: mlevi
Norman: bouaissonneux m, ivrouongne m, soûlard m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fyllik m, dranker m, drukkenbolt m, fyllefant m, ranglefant m, sviregast m, stordrikker m

Nynorsk: fyllik m, drankar m, drukkenbolt m, fyllefant m, stordrikkar m
Persian: دائم‌الخمر (dâ'em-ol-xamr), می‌زده (mey-zade)
Polish: pijak (pl) m, pijaczka (pl) f, menel (pl) m
Portuguese: bêbado (pt) m, bêbada (pt) f, bêbedo (pt) m, bêbeda (pt) f, beberrão (pt) m, beberrona f, bebum (pt) m or f
Romagnol: imbriagòn m, inciucchèd m
Romanian: alcoolic (ro) m, alcoolică (ro) f, bețiv (ro) m, bețivă (ro) f, bețivan (ro) m, bețivană f
Russian: пья́ница (ru) m or f (pʹjánica), алка́ш (ru) m (alkáš), алка́шка (ru) f (alkáška), пропо́йца (ru) m or f (propójca), пьянчу́га (ru) m or f (pʹjančúga), пьянь (ru) f (pʹjanʹ) (collective), 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: пија́нац m, пѝјаница f

Roman: pijánac (sh) m, pìjanica (sh) f
Sicilian: 'mmriacuni m, 'mmriacuna f
Slovak: opilec m, opilkyňa f, pijan m, pijanka f
Slovene: pijanec (sl) m, pijanka f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: žrěck m
Southern Altai: аракызак (arakïzak)
Spanish: borracho (es) m, borracha (es) f, bebedor (es) m, bebedora (es) f, tomador (es) m (Latin America), tomadora (es) f (Latin America), escabiador m (Latin America, colloquial), escabiadora f (Latin America, colloquial), beodo (es) m
Swahili: mlevi (sw) class 1/2
Swedish: fyllo (sv) n
Tagalog: lasinggero, lasenggo
Tajik: майзада (tg) (mayzada), доимулхамр (doyimulxamr)
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, brwysg (cy) 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
Latvian: reibums m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fullhet m
Spanish: escabio (es) m (Latin America, colloquial), embriaguez (es) f
Turkish: sarhoşluk (tr)

Verb

drunk

past participle of drink
(Southern US) simple past of drink

Anagrams

Knurd, knurd