Dictionary

half cut en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Originally jocular derivative of now rare use of cut in this sense, which dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

Meanings

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, informal) Rather drunk.
   • Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner. 2009, Death in Blackpool (The New Eighth Doctor Adventures; 4.01), Big Finish, publisher's summary:
   • You think: "That old fella's woken up still half-cut and put on his girlfriend's shoes by mistake." 2010 January 9, Alexis Petridis, “Ugg boots for men? No thanks”, in The Guardian:
   • He had the girl's head on his shoulder but she was half cut and in her seventh heaven, so he just went on talking to me, proud of his English, you see. 1974, John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Folio, published 2009, page 233:
   • Drink up thy zider, drink up thy zider, For tonight we'll merry be. We'll knock the milk churns over and roll 'em in the clover, for the corn's half cut and so be we! 1975 July 14, “Drink Up Thy Zider” (track 6), in The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels, performed by The Wurzels:

Forms

Synonyms

lashed · lathered · parlatic · disguised · lit · sottish · overtaken · sozzly · soused · medicated · fershnickered · well-oiled · muddled · gished · three sheets to the wind · hazed · flush · feeling no pain · MWI · tipsy · bingoed · mortalled · flushed · nimptopsical · steamboats · sodden · blottoed · out of one's box · drunked up · befuddled · trashed · bibacious · hooched up · crapulous · potshot · out of one's head · scammered · cup-shot · pie-eyed · fap · soshed · binned · tuned · top-heavy with drink · cocked · wobbly · beliquored · kettled · squiffed · sauced · bottled · burlin' · in one's altitudes · have the sun in one's eyes · all mops and brooms · bedrunken · in the drink · spannered · blewed · bibulous · pickled · bevvied · fou · slarmied · off one's tits · wellied · flooey · high as a kite · shitty · tight · legless · razzled · full · pixilated · blue · swacked · jaked · fuzzy-minded · skunked · spongy · plastered · muggy · a sheet in the wind's eye · sotted · oiled · honkers · shickered · Mozart and Liszt · blitzed · maggot · besotted · woozy · temulentive · destroyed · paralytic · blootered · obfuscated · scuttered · wet · raddled · zotzed · worse for liquor · gattered · lamped · gassed · throwed · ginned · crocked · hooted · fluted · insober · blind · ebriated · sloshed · juiced · fresh · hog-whimpering · rubbered · stinko · high · cockeyed · flustered · munted · fluthered · bladdered · langered · sewed up · snookered · ebriose · inebriate · loose · lushed · out of sight · splashed · ripped · oiled up · slammed · snozzled · jarred · stinking · spiffed · sloppy drunk · hammered · blasted · blocked · wrecked · shedded · inebrious · soaken · bungfu · langers · elephant's trunk · half cut · lubed up · canned · overcome · bosky · slizzard · insobrietous · maudlin · mullered · liquory · snuffy · have drink taken · ratfaced · schnockered · wazzed · mashed · puggled · rolling · frosted · shellacked · corned · liquored up · in the bag · arseholed · half polluted · in liquor · lubed · half lit · Brahms and Liszt · inebriated · whittled · kisky · drunk as a piper · temulent · schloshed · maggoted · primed · off one's head · worse for wear · Adrian Quist · mad with it · top-heavy · high as a Georgia pine · juiced up · adrip · Oliver Twist · impaired · sozzled · stotious · stewed · out of one's face · nappy · zorched · zoned · overrefreshed · budgy · zooted · quisby · shicker · cup-shotten · stoated · monged · tight as a tick · tired and emotional · bollocksed · gee-eyed · lash · clobbered · toasted · wastey · hoovered · tanked up · smashed · out of it · plowed · tippled · dead drunk · on the ran tan · inter pocula · cunted · stoned · loaded · pounded · wazzocked · three sheets in the wind · groggy · half seas over · cut · Brahms · stonkered · screwed · obliviated · sprung · fuckfaced · floored · Oliver · snockered · messed up · lubricated · aled up · boozy · how came you so · larruped · mortal · groggified · blind drunk · faced · zonked · drunken · drunk · souped-up · looped · tilted · a sheet in the wind · off one's box · besotten · fuzzy-headed · glorious · gesuip · kaylied · mabok · ripe · four sheets in the wind · hosed · newted · fuckered up · bungalowed · muzzy · polluted · potted · elevated · fried · fuddled · twisted · bombed · toping · strut · withered · tanked · in one's cups · sauced up · loopy · ossified · spanceled · ploughed · twatfaced · elephant's