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drunkenly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English drunken Middle English -ly English -ly English drunkenly From drunken + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a drunken manner.
   • […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:
   • O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son, For that I was his father Edward's son; That blood already, like the pelican, Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Forms

Synonyms

intoxicatedly · leglessly · bibulously · winefully

Translations (7)

uk п'я́но (in a drunken manner) · pl pijacko (in a drunken manner) · eo ebrie (in a drunken manner) · io ebrie (in a drunken manner) · ka ბარბაცით (in a drunken manner) · hu ittasan (in a drunken manner) · nrf ivrément (in a drunken manner)