drunken

See also: Drunken

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌŋkən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkən

Etymology 1

From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink +‎ -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).

Verb

drunken

1. (archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink

Adjective

drunken (comparative more drunken, superlative most drunken)

1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
   • a. 1830, Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)

     What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.

   • 2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval‎^[1], Author House, →ISBN, page 389:

     I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well. […]

2. (derogatory) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.

   a drunken display of crude exuberance

   • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:

     Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.

4. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
   1. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.

      drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice

Synonyms

• drunk; see also Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• drunken boxing
• drunken driving
• drunkenly
• drunkenness
• drunken noodles
• drunken shrimp
• drunkensome
• drunken trees

 

Translations

In the state of alcoholic intoxication

• Bashkir: иҫерек (iśerek)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏴᏍᏕᏓ (uyvsdeda)
• Czech: opilý (cs)
• Danish: beruset (da), fuld (da)
• Dutch: dronken (nl), zat (nl), beschonken (nl)
• Esperanto: ebria (eo)
• Finnish: humalainen (fi), juopunut (fi)
• French: ivre (fr), saoul (fr) m
• Friulian: bevût
• Georgian: მთვრალი (mtvrali), დამთვრალი (damtvrali), ნასვამი (nasvami)
• German: betrunken (de), trunken (de)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽𐍃 (drugkans)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μέθυσος (méthusos)

• Hungarian: részeg (hu), ittas (hu)
• Indonesian: mabuk (id)
• Irish: meisciúil
• Italian: ubriaco (it), ebbro (it)
• Japanese: 酔っ払い (ja) (よっぱらい, yopparai), 酔っ払う (ja) (よっぱらう, yopparau), 酔い (ja) (よい, yoi), 酔う (ja) (よう, you)
• Latin: ēbrius, tēmulentus
• Low German:

  German Low German: bedrunken

• Macedonian: пијан m (pijan)
• Manx: meshtoil
• Maori: haurangi, porohaurangi
• Plautdietsch: bedrunken
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt) m
• Romanian: beat (ro), băut (ro), îmbătat (ro)
• Russian: пья́ный (ru) (pʹjányj)
• Sanskrit: मत्त (sa) m (matta), प्रमत्त (sa) (pramatta)
• Spanish: borracho (es), ebrio (es), escabio (es), escabiado (es) (Latin America, colloquial)
• Swedish: drucken (sv), full (sv)
• Turkish: sarhoş (tr), esrik (tr), içkili (tr), küplü (tr) (slang)

given to habitual excessive use of alcohol

• Finnish: juopotteleva (fi)
• Spanish: escabiador (Latin America, colloquial)

characterized by or resulting from drunkenness

• Finnish: humalainen (fi)
• Spanish: escabio (es) (Latin America, colloquial)

Etymology 2

From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.

Verb

drunken (third-person singular simple present drunkens, present participle drunkening, simple past and past participle drunkened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate
   • 1917, Patience Worth, The Sorry Tale, page 153:

     Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!

   • 1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31:

     The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.

   • 2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31:

     Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption.

Low German

Etymology

From drinken, cognate to English drunken, Dutch dronken.

Adjective

drunken (comparative drunkener, superlative drunkenst)

1. drunk, drunken

Declension

Positive forms of drunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is drunken	se is drunken	dat is drunken	se sünd drunken
partitive		een Drunkens	een Drunkens	wat Drunkens	allens Drunken
strong declension (without article)	nominative	drunken	drunken	drunken	drunken
	oblique	drunken	drunken	drunken	drunken
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de drunken	de drunken	dat drunken	de drunken
	oblique	den drunken	de drunken	dat drunken	de drunken
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en drunken	en drunken	en drunken	(keen) drunken
	oblique	en drunken	en drunken	en drunken	(keen) drunken

Comparative forms of drunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is drunkener	se is drunkener	dat is drunkener	se sünd drunkener
partitive		een drunkeners	een drunkeners	wat drunkeners	allens drunkener
strong declension (without article)	nominative	drunkenere	drunkenere	drunkener	drunkenere
	oblique	drunkenere	drunkenere	drunkener	drunkenere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de drunkenere	de drunkenere	dat drunkenere	de drunkenere
	oblique	den drunkenern	de drunkenere	dat drunkenere	de drunkenere
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en drunkenere	en drunkenere	en drunkener	(keen) drunkener
	oblique	en drunkenern	en drunkenere	en drunkener	(keen) drunkenere

Superlative forms of drunken

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		he is de Drunkenste	se is de Drunkenste	dat is dat Drunkenste	se sünd de Drunkenstenen
strong declension (without article)	nominative	drunkenste	drunkenste	drunkenst	drunkenste
	oblique	drunkensten	drunkenste	drunkenst	drunkenste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	de drunkenste	de drunkenste	dat drunkenste	de drunkensten
	oblique	den drunkensten	de drunkenste	dat drunkenste	de drunkensten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	en drunkenste	en drunkenste	en drunkenst	(keen) drunkensten
	oblique	en drunkenste	en drunkenste	en drunkenst	(keen) drunkensten

Synonyms

• duun
• bedrunken
• anduunt
• dick
• drietendick
• besapen
• betüdelt
• vull
• benusselt