Synonyms for boozy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : boo-zee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbu zi |
Top 10 synonyms for boozy
Définition of boozy
Origin :- "inebriated," 1719, from booze + -y (2). It was one of Benjamin Franklin's 225 synonyms for "drunk" published in 1722. Related: Boozily; booziness.
- adj drunk
- No sense in argy'in' with a gun an' a boozy bluffer at the other end of it.
- Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn
- He wouldn't for the world do anything to shock you, would He, Boozy dear?
- Extract from : « The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet » by George Bernard Shaw
- He got to his feet and rolled about the room, like a boozy sailor, puffing out volumes of smoke and muttering beneath his breath.
- Extract from : « Hidden Gold » by Wilder Anthony
- Our men said they kept sober in order to strip the boozy sailor of his money, by gambling.
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- He approached her, smiling, and with boozy eyes, in order to put his arm round her neck.
- Extract from : « Skipper Worse » by Alexander Lange Kielland
- Now it came shuffling down in a boozy way to take its morning bath.
- Extract from : « Boyhood in Norway » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
- Shut up like a rat-trap, and trotted off twist-ways, the "Thumper" did, huffed in 'is boozy old style.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 26, 1895 » by Various
- It makes me sick to think of having to trust to an accident like that, like a lubberly cockney out for a boozy Bank Holiday sail.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
- Sir Roger and Mr. Spectator are as real to us now as the two doctors and the boozy and faithful Scotchman.
- Extract from : « The History of Pendennis » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- One of the boozy fellows dived under the wharf, and played mud-turtle for some time, but we finally fished him out.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States » by Raphael Semmes
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