drunkish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drunkish (not comparable)
- Somewhat drunk.
- 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Frederick the Great[1], Volume 5, Book 5, Chapter 1:
- […] every evening he comes precisely at a certain hour to drink beer, seasoned with a little tobacco, and the company of these two women. Drinks diligently in a sipping way, says Horace; and smokes, with such dull speech as there may be,—not till he is drunk, but only perceptibly drunkish; raised into a kind of cloudy narcotic Olympus, and opaquely superior to the ills of life; in which state he walks uncomplainingly to bed.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- There was more laughter—and Gerald was leading them along very ably: they were drunkish and amenable, even gullible, since making a speech was a kind of trick.
Synonyms
[edit]- buzzed, tipsy; see Thesaurus:drunk