Drunk Words

After a serious night on the beer, existing words just aren't adequate and we are driven to create new ones in order to express just how bad we were. We are cosmonauts of the comatose, on a life-long mission to seek out and explore new limits of oblivion.

Man Walks into a Pub had 120 different words for being drunk. For a laugh, we supplemented these with as many others as we could find, many of these coming from Jonathon Green's Dictionary of Slang. Here's the result.

I hope that the following list contains some words that you feel inspired to resuscitate and rehabilitate into common usage. Let's make this into a great project - send in any other terms you use that aren't already shown here.

 

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A

About right
Above par
Addled/Addled-pated
Adrian (quist)
Afflicted
Afloat
Airlocked
Aled-up
Alkied
All at sea
All wet
Altogether/Altogethery
Annihilated
A-peg-too-low
Arsed/arseholed
Ass on backwards
At rest
Awash
Away with the band

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B
Bacchanalian/bacchic
Badered
Bagged
Balmy
Bang up
Banged up to the eyes
Banjaxed
Barrelled
Bashed
Basted
Be all keyhole, to
Be-argured
Been in the sun
Beery/beered-up
Befuddled
Beggared
Bellied
Below the mahogany
Belted
Bemused
Bemused with beer
Bent (out of shape)
Besotted
Bet one's kettle,to
Bevvied
Bibacious
Bibulous
Biffed/Biffy
Binged (up)
Bingoed
Bit lit
Bitch-fou
Bite one's grannam, to
Bitten by a barn- mouse
Bitten by the tavern bitch
Black up
Bladdered
Blagged
Blah
Blasted
Blathered
Bleary
Blethered
Blighted
Blind/Blind drunk
Blitzed
Block-and-block
Bloody flag is out/hang out the bloody flag
Blootered
Blotto
Blow in a bowl, to
Blown (away/up/out)
Blue blind
Blue eyed
Blued
Bobo
Boiled/Boiling
Bollocksed
Bombed (out of one's mind/tree)
Boned
Bonkers
Booed + hissed
Boohonged
Boonered
Boozed/boozed-up, boozy
Bosky
Bottled
Bousy/Bowsy
Bowsered
Brahms and Liszt/Mozart and Liszt
Bricky
Bright in the eye
Bubbed
Buckled
Buffed
Bullaphants
Bummed (out)
Bumpsie/Bumpsy
Bung one's eye to
Bung/bunged (up)/Bungy
Bunned
Buoyant
Burn one on
Burn one's shoulder, to
Burn with a low blue flame
Buzzed/Buzzy

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C
Cacko
Caked
Caned
Canned
Cannon
Can't say 'british constitution'
Can't say 'naval intelligencer'
Can't see a hole in a forty-foot ladder
Can't/too drunk to see through a ladder
Cap-stick
Carry a turkey on one's back (to)
Carrying a load
Cast
Catch a fox
Catch/get the flavour
Charged/charged up
Chateaued
Cheerio
Chipper
Chirping merry
Choked
Chucked
Clinched
Clobbered
Cocked
Cockeyed
Coguey
Columbered
Comatose
Comboozelated
Commode-huggin drunk
Concerned
Conked (out)
Cooked
Coopered
Cop a buzz (to)
Cop a reeler (to)
Cop the brewery (to)
Cork screwed
Cork up
Corked/corky
Corn up
Corned/corny
Corroded
Crapulent/crapulous
Crash a bottle, to
Creamed
Croaked
Crocked/crocko
Crooked
Cropsick
Cross- eyed
Cunted
Cup-shaken
Cupshot
Cut (in the back/in the leg/over the head)

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D
D and D
Dagged
Damaged
Damp
Dazed
Dead/Deado/deadoh/Dead to the (wide)world/Dead-drunk
Debauched
Decked/decked out
Decks-awash
Destroyed
Diked (up)
Dinged out
Dionysian
Dipso/Dipsy
Discombobulate and bouse
Disguised
Dissipated
Dissolute
Dithered
Dizzy
Dog-drunk
Done-up/Done-over
Doolally
Dopey
Down by the head
Dozed
Drenched
Drinky
Drive the brewers horse, to
Droned
Dronk
Dronkie
Drop-in-his-eye
Drown the shramrock,to
Drunk
Drunk as a bastard
Drunk as a bat
Drunk as a beggar
Drunk as a besom
Drunk as a big owl
Drunk as a boiled owl
Drunk as a bowdow
Drunk as a brewer's fart
Drunk as a chloe
Drunk as a cook
Drunk as a coon
Drunk as a coot
Drunk as a cooter
Drunk as a cooter brown
Drunk as a cootie
Drunk as a dog
Drunk as a fiddle/fiddler
Drunk as a fiddler's bitch
Drunk as a fish
Drunk as a fly
Drunk as a fowl
Drunk as a Gosport fiddler
Drunk as a hog
Drunk as a king
Drunk as a little red wagon
Drunk as a log
Drunk as a lord
Drunk as a monkey
Drunk as an owl
Drunk as a perraner
Drunk as a pig
Drunk as a piper
Drunk as a poet
Drunk as a polony
Drunk as a rat
Drunk as a rolling fart
Drunk as a sailor
Drunk as a skunk in a trunk
Drunk as a sow
Drunk as a swine
Drunk as a tapster
Drunk as a tick
Drunk as a top
Drunk as an emperor
Drunk as David's sow
Drunk as dogshit
Drunk as floey
Drunk as wheelbarrow
Drunked up/out
Drunken
Drunkie/drunky
Drunkin /drunking
Dutchman's headache

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E
Ebriate
Ebrious/ebriose
Edged
Electrified
Elephant's trunk
Elevated
Embalmed
Entered
Exalted
Eyes set at eight in the morning
Eyes set in ones head

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F
F.u.b.a.r. (fucked up beyond all recognition)
Faced
Faded
Fall in the thick
Fall off the wagon, to
Far gone
Feel funny
Feel good
Feel no pain
Feeling right royal
Ferschtinkenered
Fetch the brewer,to
Fettled
Fighting drunk/tight
Flag of defiance is out
Flaked/Flakers/Flako
Flaming
Flared
Flawed
Flipped
Floored
Florid
Fluffed/Fluffy
Flummoxed
Flush/flushed
Flustered
Fly blown
Fly high/ fly rather high,to
Fog-bound
Fogged/Foggy
Fogmatic
Fonged/fonged up/half fonged
Forteyed
Fou
Fox -drunk/Foxed
Fractured
Frazzled (out)
Fresh
Fried
Frustrated
Fucked
Fuckfaced
Fuddled
Full as a boiled/fresh-boiled owl
Full as a tun, goat, tick, egg, goose, lord etc.
Full to the bung
Full to the gills
Funny
Fuzzed/Fuzzy

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G
Gaga
Gargled
Gassed
Gattered
Gay
Geared up
Geed-up
Geezed
Gerook
Gesuip
Get a jag on, to
Get a load on, to
Get a snootful, to
Get horizontal, to
Get kailed up, to
Get on, to
Get one's head bad/right, to
Get one's nose painted, to
Get one's shoes full, to
Get one's soul in soak, to
Get out of ones face, to -
Get right, to
Get sloppy, to
Get stoned, to
Get stupid, to
Get the gravel rash, to
Get there, to
Get/ have a glow on
Get/have a skinful, to
Get/have a skinful, to
Giddy
Giffed
Ginned up
Glad
Glassy-eyed
Globular
Glorious
Glowing
Glued
Go Borneo
Go down with barrel fever
Go for a veg, to
Go on the cousin's sis, to
Go to bed in one's boots, to
Go to Jericho, to
Go to Jeruselum, to
Go to Mexico, to
Go to Putney (on a pig), to
Golded
Golfed
Gone
Gonzo/Gonzoed
Goofed up/Goofy
Gooned/gooned out
Gowed/gowed up
Grapeshot
Greased
Greetin' fou
Groatable
Grogged/groggy
Gronked
Guttered
Guzzled

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H
Half canned
Half seas over
Half the bay over
Half-a-brewer
Half-cocked
Half-cut
Half-half and half
Half-high
Half-nelson
Half-off, half-on
Half-rats
Half-rinsed
Half-shaved
Half-shot
Half-slewed
Half-tore
Hammered
Hand and fist
Hang one on
Hanging
Happy
Hard up
Have a bag on, to
Have a ballast on board, to
Have a beer in, to
Have a cab, to
Have a drop in one's eye, to
Have a few, to
Have a hummer going, to
Have a jag on,to
Have a pot in the pate,to
Have a smell/sniff of the barman's/barmaid's apron
Have a swelled/swollen head,to
Have a tip on, to
Have a white coat, to
Have all that/more than one can carry, to
Have been in the sun, to
Have bread and cheese in one's head, to
Have breath strong enough to carry coal, to
Have caught a fox, to
Have corns in the head, to
Have had enough
Have had one or two, to
Have hot balls, to
Have in/in some liquor/rum
Have malt above the water, to
Have one too many, to
Have one's back teeth afloat/awash/underwater, to
Have one's barrel full
Have one's eyes opened, to
Have one's pots on, to
Have one's sails high, to
Have seen the French king, to
Have the sun in one's eyes/have been standing too long in the sun, to
Have/have had/have got a cup too much,to
Hazy
Heady
Hearty
Heated
Helpless
Hepped up
Hickey
Hicksius doxius/hictius-doctius
Hiddy
High (as a kite)
High as a cats back
High as a fiddler's fist
High as Lindbergh
High as ninety
High as/higher than a Georgia pine
Hit and missed
Hit on the head by the tavern bitch
Hit the booze/bootle/jug,to
Hit the bung, to
Hit the sauce, to
Hit under the wing
Hockey
Hocus
Hocus-pocus
Hog-drunk
Hog-whimpering
Honkers/Honking
Hoodman
Hoodman blind
Hoonaed
Hooped/hoopsey
Hooted
Horrid
Hot
How-come-ye-so
Humpty-doo

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I
Iced to the eyebrows
Illuminated
Impixlocated
In a bad way
In a merry pin
In a shocking state
In difficulty
In for/in for it
In good/proper fettle
In liquour
In on one's fourth, to be
In one's ale/ales
In one's altitudes
In one's armour
In one's beer/cups/pots
In one's royal
In the bag/wrapper
In the crown office
In the ditch
In the gun
In the jigs
In the ozone
In the tank
In/into orbit
Incog
Inebriate/inebriated
Inked/Inky/inky poo
Inspired
Intemperate
Inter pocula
Intoxicated
Invertebrated
Ishkimkisk

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J
Jack ashore
Jacked/jacked up
Jagged
Jammed
Jarred
Jazzed up
Jiggered
Jingled
John Bull
Jolly
Jrunk
Jug bitten
Jug broke
Jugged
Juiced/juiced up
Jumbo's trunk
Just nicely

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K
K.O.'ed
Kalied/kaylied
Kanurd/kennurd
Kaschnickered
Kaylied
Kenird
Kill one's dog, to
Killed
Kisky
Knee walking/knee-walking drunk
Knock out one's link, to
Knocked out

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L
La La Land, in
Labelled
Laced
Lagered (up)
Laid (back/out)
Laid to the bone
Lame
Langered/langers
Lashed (up)
Lathered
Lean-up
Leathered
Legless
Lekker
Letting the finger ride the thumb
Licentious
Lie on one's face, to
Lifted
Light
Likkered
Liquefied
Liquored (up)
Listing to starboard
Lit (up/to the gills)
Lit up like a christmas tree/like Broadway/Main Street/ Times Square
Load on
Load up
Loaded (to the barrel/earlobes/gills/guards/gunnels/hat/muzzle/plimsol mark/tailgate
Locked
Look through a glass, to
Looking lively
Loop legged
Looped/Loopy
Loose
Lose one's legs, to
Lose one's rudder, to
Low in the saddle
Lubricated
Lumpy
Lush/Lushy
Lush it around/up
Lush up/Lushed up

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M
Maggoty
Making Ms and Ts
Malted/Malty
Martin drunk
Mashed
Maudlin
Mauled
Maxed (out)
Mellow
Melted
Merry
Messed (up)
Mickey finished
Mind-fucked
Miraculous
Mixed
Mizzled
Moccasined
Moist around the edges
Mokus
Molly
Molo/molared/molled/mowlow
Monstered
Mooneyed/Moony/mooney
Mopped up/Moppy
Mops and brooms / all mops and brooms
Mortal
Mortallious
Mouldy
Muckibus
Muddled
Muggy
Muled/mulled up
Mullahed
Muzzy/muzzed

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N
Nailed (up)
Nappy
Nase/nace/Nazie/nazy/Nazzy
Needing a reef taken in
Newted
Nicely, thank you
Noddy-headed
Non compos
Not able to hit the ground with his hat
Numb

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O
Obfuscated
Obliterated
Obliveritated
Oddish
Off nicely
Off one's bean/nut/nail/tits/trolley/box/tree/face
Offit
Oiled/oiled up
On
On a bat
On a brannigan
On a merry pin
On a tipple
On sentry
On the bottle
On the floor
On the go
On the grog/juice
On the mop
On the ooze
On the ran-tan
On the rap
On the reraw/ree-raw
On the scoop
On the tiddley
One over the eight
Orgiastic
Ory-eyed/oary-eyed/orey-eyed/orie-eyed/orry-eyed
Ossified
Otis
Out (cold)
Out of control/OOC
Out of it
Out of your skull/tree/mind/face/nut
Out to breakfast
Out to it
Out to lunch
Over the bay
Over the mark
Over the plimsol
Over the top/o.t.t.
Overcome
Overheat one's flues, to
Overseas
Overseen
Overserved
Overshot
Overtaken
Owl-/owly-eyed

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P
Paid
Palatic
Palatic/parlatic
Paled/paled out
Paralysed
Paralytic
Passenger on the Cape Ann stage, to be a
Pasted
Paved
Peg-too-low
Pepst
Perked
Pertish
Pervin'
Petrified
Pickled
Pie-out
Pie-eyed
Piffed/piffled
Pifflicated
Pinko
Piped
Piper fou
Pissant
Pissed (as a chook/fart/bastard/parrot/cunt/newt/twat etc.)
Pissed as arseholes
Pissed to the ears/gills
Pissed up
Pissing fou
Pissy
Pixillated/pixilated/pixolated
Pizz/pizicato
Plastered
Play camels
Pleasant
Plonked up
Plootered
Plotzed
Ploughed/plowed
Poddy
Podgy
Poegaai/poeg-eyed
Pogy
Poll off/Polled off
Polluted
Popeyed
Potshot
Potsick
Potted/poted
Pot-valiant
Powder one's hair, to
Prang
Prime oneself
Primed
Puggy drunk
Pummeled
Pushed
Put another nail in one's coffin,
Putrid

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Q
Queer in the attic
Queered
Quick tempered
Quite the gay drunkard, to be

R
Raddled
Rammaged
Ramped
Ranked
Rat-arsed
Ratted
Rattled
Raunchy/ronchie
Reeking
Reeling
Rigid
Rileyed
Riotous
Ripe
Ripped (out of one's gourd/to the tits/gills)
Ripskated
Roaring fou
Rock/Rocky
Rolling
Roostered
Rooted
Rosin
Rosy
Rotten, get
Rotto
Row up salt river, to
Royally drunk
Ruined

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S
Salt/Salted
Salt junk
Salubrious
Sap happy
Saturated
Saturnalian
Sauced
Scammered
Schindlers (as in List)
Schizzed
Schwallied
Scoobied/skoobied
Scooped
Scratched
Scraunced/scronched
Screwed/screwy
Scrooched
Scuttered
See indians, to
Seeing double
Seeing the devil
Senseless
Sewed up
Shake a cloth in the wind, to
Shattered
Shaved
Shedded
Sheet in the wind
Shellacked
Sherberty
Shicker/shiker/shikker
Shickered/shikkared/shikkered/shikkured
Shickery
Ship-wrecked
Shited
Shit-faced
Shoe the goose, to
Shot (full of holes/in the neck)
Shout oneself hoarse, to
Show drink
Show it
Shredded
Sillaged
Skating
Skew-whiff
Skimish/skimmish
Skulled
Skunked
Slammed
Slashed
Slathered
Slaughtered
Slewed
Slop up
Slopped
Sloshed
Slugged
Smash hell trough a gridiron, to
Smashed
Smelling of the cork
Smifligated/spifficated
Smuckered
Snockered/ schnockered
Snootered/snooted
Snozzled
Snuffy
Snug
So
So drunk he opened his shirt collar to piss
Soaked
Sodden
Soft
So-so
Sossled
Sotted/sottish
Soupy
Soused (to the gills)
Sow-drunk
Sozzled
Speechless
Spiffed
Spinning
Spitz poodle
Spreeish
Sprung
Squashed
Squiffed/Squiffy/quiffy-eyed
Starchy
Steamboated / steamboats
Steamed up/Steaming
Stewed (to the gills/ears/eyebrows/eyeballs etc.)
Stewed as a prune
Stiff
Stinking/Stinko
Stitched
Stoated
Stocious
Stoked/stoked on
Stone blind
Stoned/stoned out
Stoned to the eyes/eyeballs
Stonkered
Stony blind
Stretched
Stung
Stunned
Stupid
Subtle
Sucky
Swacked
Swacko
Swallow a hare, to
Swallow a tavern token, to
Swatched
Swattled
Sweet
Swigged
Swiggled
Swilled
Swinny
Swipey
Swivelly
Swizzled / swozzled

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T
Take a Burford break, to
Take in a cargo, to
Taking it easy
Talking to Jamie Moore
Tangle footed
Tangle legged
Tangled
Tanked (up)
Tanky
Tattered
Ted
Teed up
Temulent
The worse for wear/drink/liquor
There
Thrashed
Three (four) sheets to the wind
Through
Thumped over the head with Samson's jawbone
Tiddled/Tiddley/tiddy
Tie a bag on, to
Tie one on
Tight
Tight as a boiled owl
Tin hat
Tinned
Tip-merry
Tipped
Tipperary
Tippled
Tipsy
Tired
Tired and emotional
Tishy
Titley
To have a brick in one's hat
Toasted
Toe/toe up/ torn up
Tonicked
Too many cloths in the wind
Too numerous to mention
Top heavy
Toping
Topped up
Toppy
Topsy boozy
Topsy frizy
Tore out of the frame
Tore up
Torqued
Torrid
Tossed
Tost
Tostificated
Totalled / totalled out
Touched
Tow row
Toxed/toxt
Translated
Trashed
Travel by rail, to
Trolleyed
Trousered
Tubed
Tuned
Turned on
Twatted
Tweaked/tweeked
Twisted

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U
Umpty-doo
Under
Under the influence
Under the table
Under the weather
Up in one's hat
Up one's sleeve
Up-the-pole

V
Vegatable
Vrot

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W
Walk on one's cap-badge, to
Wall-eyed
Wankered
Wash one's face in an ale clout, to
Wasted/Wasto
Watch the ant races, to
Waterlogged
Wave a flag of defiance, to
Wazzed/Wazzocked
Wear the barley cap, to
Weary
Well away
Well loaded
Well oiled
Well to live
Well under
Well-oiled
Well-sprung
Wet
Wet one's neck, to
Whacked/whacked out
What-nosed
Whazooed
Whiffled
Whipped
Whipped the cat
Whistled
Whittled as a penguin
Whooped / whupped
Winey
Winged / wing'd
Wiped out
Wired / wired up
Wollied
Woozled
Woozy / woosey
Worse for wear
Wrapt up in a warm flannel
Wrecked
Wrong all around the corner

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Y
Yaupy / yaupish


 

Z
Zigzagged
Zippered
Zoned
Zonked
Zoolooed
Zooted / zooted up
Zorched

 

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