peloothered en · ADJ
Etymology
Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Possibly from Hiberno-English as a humorous dialectal corruption of blootered or polluted.
Meanings
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(informal, rare) Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
If you're peloothered then you're very, very drunk.
2015 March 17, Paul Anthony Jones, “17 Words Invented By James Joyce”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 29 Sep 2015:By this time Jimmy was working himself into such a state—he'd already told me “I'm peloothered, lurve, bleeding peloothered”—that I felt he'd be unable to proceed.
1988, Frederick Exley, Last Notes from Home, →ISBN:‘[…] How did it happen at all?’ ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.
1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 197:
Synonyms
a sheet in the wind's eye · well-oiled · out of one's box · bungalowed · tanked · bombed · monged · cup-shot · spanceled · fuddled · spiffed · mortalled · disguised · ginned · stinking · zoned · mortal · paralytic · hammered · cut · groggified · Brahms and Liszt · Adrian Quist · legless · ratfaced · trashed · oiled up · feeling no pain · tanked up · bladdered · lit · potted · bevvied · sauced up · half polluted · withered · newted · bungfu · kisky · woozy · gee-eyed · lubed · jarred · whittled · sottish · hog-whimpering · maggoted · pixilated · blasted · lushed · Oliver Twist · floored · pickled · twatfaced · fuckered up · liquory · top-heavy · high as a kite · primed · tired and emotional · hooched up · cunted · fresh · canned · maggot · skunked · mashed · scuttered · hosed · messed up · destroyed · ebriose · kaylied · faced · blind · corned · muzzy · shedded · snockered · insober · blue · half seas over · lash · crocked · hazed · zonked · crapulous · elevated · strut · wazzed · gesuip · rubbered · sodden · tilted · razzled · fershnickered · ripped · overcome · lashed · looped · sloppy drunk · four sheets in the wind · obfuscated · drunked up · sotted · MWI · elephant's · stotious · full · screwed · Brahms · loaded · loose · insobrietous · clobbered · tippled · fou · burlin' · spongy · top-heavy with drink · zotzed · worse for liquor · lubed up · ploughed · out of one's face · fuzzy-minded · frosted · ossified · high · snozzled · mabok · slammed · befuddled · binned · tipsy · cup-shotten · bosky · snookered · on the ran tan · stoned · boozy · maudlin · arseholed · raddled · off one's head · schloshed · three sheets in the wind · bingoed · sloshed · squiffed · stewed · out of sight · potshot · lamped · langers · all mops and brooms · cocked · soshed · shellacked · soaken · ripe · elephant's trunk · bollocksed · besotten · juiced · overtaken · sauced · overrefreshed · wrecked · off one's tits · lathered · high as a Georgia pine · plowed · tuned · wet · munted · loopy · flustered · flooey · how came you so · sozzled · toping · wazzocked · in one's cups · twisted · in the bag · slarmied · sprung · fluthered · wellied · tight as a tick · gassed · impaired · parlatic · bibulous · splashed · blitzed · muddled · inebriate · in the drink · half cut · beliquored · slizzard · bibacious · inebriated · off one's box · soused · have drink taken · blind drunk · shickered · tight · muggy · gished · fap · Mozart and Liszt · dead drunk · zorched · out of one's head · blottoed · drunken · drunk as a piper · drunk · a sheet in the wind · spannered · souped-up · schnockered · aled up · pie-eyed · honkers · glorious · stoated · scammered · inebrious · half lit · throwed · temulent · zooted · Oliver · cockeyed · hooted · jaked · fried · nimptopsical · blocked · quisby · hoovered · fuzzy-headed · plastered · bottled · toasted · snuffy · flushed · obliviated · wobbly · stonkered · gattered · three sheets to the wind · mad with it · lubricated · wastey · sewed up · oiled · puggled · smashed · temulentive · liquored up · sozzly · nappy · bedrunken · pounded · juiced up · besotted · swacked · inter pocula · steamboats · groggy · polluted · budgy · in liquor · shicker · kettled · in one's altitudes · flush · blewed · fuckfaced · rolling · blootered · fluted · langered · mullered · larruped · stinko · out of it · adrip · worse for wear · shitty · have the sun in one's eyes · medicated · ebriated