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pixilated en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪksɪleɪtɪd/

Etymology

From pixie, with ending as in titillated.

Meanings

1. Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
   • Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilated. Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated. […] Board member: Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated" is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy". 1936, Robert Riskin, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Film):
2. Whimsical.
   • Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107:
3. Drunk.
   • The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated, and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh… 1960, Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water, London: Longmans, →OL, page 5:

Forms

Synonyms

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