Definitions
Etymologies
- From blot. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from blot1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We ceased to think there was any harm in being occasionally "blotto" at night, or in employing the picturesque army word "bloody.”
“It was midnight on a Tuesday but the atmosphere in the Kristinemut bar resembled a hardcore weekend: raucous band, chaotic dancing, and more than a handful of revellers (of all ages) best described as "blotto".”
“The pop-singer, 30, was blotto in the passenger seat of a car driven by boyfriend, Matthew Rutler, who was cited for drunk driving.”
“At midnight it was salsa in the square, the police totally blotto and a couple of officers we got to know supporting each staggering down the street.”
It’s New Years Eve and I promise to do my best. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“Mention the word to your average neighborhood bartender and the odds are probably 50-50 you'll wind up with a slushy, fruit-flavored morass of syrups and chemicals, designed to mask any hint of alcohol and get the drinker blotto as quickly and painlessly as possible.”
“Threatening them to be dumped from their trip if they get blotto presupposes their hearts can't be touched.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rebirthing Birthright
“To be a teetotaling bystander among the blotto masses at Renn Fayre is to feel like one of those kids lining the walls at the junior-high dance, desperate to exude that "I am having a fantastic time" expression that only looks authentic if you are actually having a fantastic time.”
“Everyone gets drunk at Christmas, it turns out, because the huge inflationary drive towards goodwill makes the misery line lurch dozens of points north, meaning that, unless you're perpetually blotto, bloodshot eyes twinkling at the sight of an approaching slice of cake, you're pitched into despair.”
The Guardian: Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling
“Before anyone gets the wrong idea and thinks that the "Bottle Shock" cast and crew were blotto while filming, Alan Rickman, who plays wine seller Steven Spurrier, stressed that all the drinking was off campus.”
“Getting blotto drunk makes for an easy mark, also.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blotto’.
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Bibulosity
Adjectives meaning, or approximating to 'drunk'
Pissed, Ratted, Merry, Tipsy, Legless, Blootered, Mortal, Inebriated, addled, tiddly, stewed, roistered and 39 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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A Dram Too Many
notanotherjazzpoet had a very promising list which appears to have petered out. Yes, tosspots: descriptions of being drunk. Walk five metres on the white line then leave your suggestions right here.
drunk, guttered, pissed, baked, three sails in th..., smashed, paralytic, out of your tree, hammered, bombed, glazed, blotto and 336 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Olde Fashyned Slang
word, cracking, blotto, ankle, dewdropper, applesauce, bee's knees, bird, breezer, bubs, bum's rush, cake-eater and 36 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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chemical boyfriend
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers...
candyflip, doublestack, e-tard, k-hole, rolls, blotto, faced, lit, rolling, blotter, robotrip, explorers club and 22 more...
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femmealunettes's Words
serendipitous, psychosocial, animalistic, desperation, augury, dank, pirouette, amnesiac, eternally, stargate, fluffy, pineapple and 65 more...
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There's a glass of punch below your f...
buzzed, tanked, drunk, smashed, trashed, puzzled, tore up, wasted, lubricated, tipsy, obliterated, tossed and 21 more...
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Inebriation
Euphemisms for drunkenness dating back to the 18th century.
stiff, fuzzy, bent, slewed, stinking, screwed, lushy, pixilated, swizzled, whipped, tanglefooted, spiffed and 40 more...
Tweets
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RevBrently From Lauren Oliver's "Before I Fall," p. 244: "I take a big swig of beer, wishing I could just go blotto." Aug 10, 2012