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whiskified en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English whisky Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English -ed English whiskified From whisky + -ify + -ed.

Meanings

1. Drunk on whisky.
   • Of the various types of field-officer upon whom he could have modelled himself as regards the men, he had chosen that of the genial, rubicund, slightly whiskyfied C.O. who finishes every sentence with the words: ‘Eh, what?’ 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 584:
   • But Tom — rather, the kids' dad — had passed from her as surely as if he had been tumbled into the grave with the whiskeyfied rancher. 1980, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky:
   • Fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (1)

ga fuisciúil (drunk on whisky)