OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2899

drunken

/ˈdɹʌŋkən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
borracho • ebrio • escabiado • escabio
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
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…
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
escabiador
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
escabio
Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
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.
a drunken display of crude exuberance