Dictionary

boozy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbuːzi/

Etymology

Etymology tree English booze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English boozy From booze + -y.

Meanings

1. (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.
2. (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
   • Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […] 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
3. (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
   • We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
   • Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing. 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:
4. (of food) Containing or cooked with alcohol.
   • You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men. 1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use:
   • Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste. 2005, Frank A. Defilippo, Hooked, page 187:
   • Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce. 2012, Martha Holmberg, Crepes: 50 Savory and Sweet Recipes, page 116:
   • For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.

Forms

Deriveds

booziness · boozily

Synonyms

drunk (inclined to consume alcohol) · alcoholic (containing alcohol) · sottish (inclined to consume alcohol) · drunk (intoxicated by alcohol)

Translations (20)

fi kostea (involving large consumption of alcohol) · es ebrio (intoxicated by alcohol) · fi viinanhöyryinen (involving large consumption of alcohol) · ru пья́ный (intoxicated by alcohol) · ru подда́тый (intoxicated by alcohol) · es escabiador (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol) · es escabio (involving large consumption of alcohol) · es escabiado (intoxicated by alcohol) · ru пью́щий (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol) · ru пья́нствующий (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol) · es borracho (intoxicated by alcohol) · cs nasávající (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol) · pt bebado (intoxicated by alcohol) · af hoenderkop (intoxicated by alcohol) · fi humalainen (intoxicated by alcohol) · es escabio (intoxicated by alcohol) · mi porohaurangi (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol) · cs ožralý (intoxicated by alcohol) · fi alkoholipitoinen (containing or cooked with alcohol) · fi viinaan menevä (inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol)