punch drunk

See also: punchdrunk and punch-drunk

English

Alternative forms

• punch-drunk, punchdrunk

Pronunciation

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Adjective

punch drunk (not comparable)

1. Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head.

   Synonyms: out on one's feet, slaphappy

   The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.

2. Behaving in a bewildered, or dazed manner.
   • 2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:

     We've become so accustomed to the word 'billions' over the last ten months that we've become punch drunk about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has really cost us all.

Translations

dizzy from blows to the head

• Bulgarian: зашеметен (bg) (zašemeten)
• Swedish: vimmelkantig (sv), omtöcknad (sv), groggy (sv), dimmig (sv), boxardement