crapulous en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek κραιπᾰ́λη (kraipắlē)der. Latin crāpula Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin crāpulōsusder. Middle English crapulous English crapulous From late Middle English crapulous, from Latin crapulosus (“drunken”), from crapula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”). Compare French crapuleux. Unrelated to the word crap.
Meanings
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Characterized by excessive eating or drinking.
Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills.
2021, “Retired Janitors of Idaho” (21:47 from the start), in Succession, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Ewan Roy (James Cromwell):
- Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.
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Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating.
By the time Swelter's monologue was dragging to its crapulous close, Mr. Flay was pacing onwards […]
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:He was in a crapulous state of booze, too, and demanded another thirty shillings.
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 71:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more crapulous | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most crapulous | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Relateds
crapula · crapulousness · crapulence · crapulously · crapulent
Synonyms
pie-eyed · blind drunk · cup-shotten · sodden · sloshed · mortal · loopy · off one's tits · primed · lit · schnockered · worse for wear · tanked up · muzzy · canned · pukey · langers · jarred · polluted · medicated · blind · nimptopsical · oiled · nappy · wellied · flustered · off one's head · spannered · monged · wamble-cropped · elephant's · fuzzy-headed · mawkish · full · stonkered · feeling no pain · adrip · newted · top-heavy with drink · Brahms and Liszt · half seas over · tired and emotional · have the sun in one's eyes · paralytic · high as a kite · bungalowed · pukish · honkers · inebrious · stoated · spongy · scuttered · woozy · ebriose · in one's cups · cup-shot · blottoed · maudlin · potshot · gee-eyed · shedded · off one's box · liquory · three sheets in the wind · sottish · steamboats · jaked · worse for liquor · Oliver · stinko · corned · whittled · in one's altitudes · fuckered up · fou · raddled · cocked · snozzled · bibulous · bosky · plowed · fluted · sewed up · tipsy · parlatic · ploughed · mashed · insober · bingoed · faced · bibacious · withered · mad with it · tuned · slizzard · mullered · snuffy · zoned · mabok · messed up · wazzed · fuckfaced · bottled · glorious · drunk as a piper · flooey · a sheet in the wind's eye · zotzed · ginned · stotious · out of one's head · Adrian Quist · four sheets in the wind · shitty · strut · sauced · fap · befuddled · hooted · binned · bevvied · bladdered · shickered · lubed up · nauseatic · slarmied · ratfaced · sprung · high · schloshed · dead drunk · screwed · muddled · inebriate · how came you so · loose · hooched up · sauced up · splashed · lushed · burlin' · intemperate · obfuscated · barfy · pounded · snockered · disguised · pickled · sick · floored · maggoted · beliquored · kettled · out of sight · drunked up · flushed · bungfu · sloppy drunk · squiffed · drunk · hazed · sozzled · shicker · trashed · half cut · tight as a tick · toasted · Oliver Twist · looped · debauched · kaylied · vomity · blasted · shellacked · twisted · aled up · wastey · fershnickered · langered · have drink taken · tilted · temulent · wazzocked · bollocksed · zorched · skunked · wobbly · rubbered · kisky · high as a Georgia pine · swacked · temulentive · loaded · tight · boozy · well-oiled · juiced up · hammered · Brahms · budgy · potted · blue · munted · cockeyed · mortalled · gished · out of one's face · wrecked · blootered · in liquor · cut · MWI · hosed · inebriated · half polluted · spiffed · out of one's box · gesuip · all mops and brooms · out of it · zonked · lash · crapulous · juiced · toping · in the drink · flush · fluthered · bedrunken · lubricated · lashed · ebriated · pixilated · obliviated · souped-up · three sheets to the wind · overcome · inter pocula · Mozart and Liszt · drunken · groggified · destroyed · gattered · liquored up · soused · soaken · drunk · maggot · bombed · quisby · plastered · besotted · on the ran tan · smashed · hog-whimpering · clobbered · cunted · crapulent · fried · blitzed · gassed · blocked · nauseated · blewed · stinking · elephant's trunk · legless · tippled · lubed · stoned · sotted · larruped · fresh · insobrietous · fuddled · razzled · ossified · oiled up · snookered · sick to one's stomach · puggled · twatfaced · rolling · groggy · overrefreshed · soshed · stewed · throwed · spanceled · frosted · scammered · hoovered · wet · in the bag · ripped · muggy · overtaken · a sheet in the wind · lathered · slammed · sozzly · fuzzy-minded · lamped · impaired · elevated · tanked · arseholed · top-heavy · besotten · crocked · queasy · half lit · ripe · zooted
Translations (7)
fi humalainen (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking) · bg махмурлия (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking) · fi krapulainen (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking) · fi ylensyönyt (overeaten) (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking) · fi mässäilevä (characterized by excessive eating or drinking) · sh prežderanost (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking) · sh mamurluk (suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking)