Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Showing the effects of a booze; somewhat intoxicated; merry or foolish with liquor.
Wiktionary
- adj. of a person intoxicated by alcohol
- adj. of a person Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- adj. of an event Involving a large consumption of alcohol
- adj. of food containing or cooked with alcohol.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Etymologies
- From booze (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Globes have long been known as a boozy, less formal affair than other awards shows such as the Oscars.”
“This Loire Valley style red would probably severely disappoint the followers of the afore-mentioned "boozy" reds, but Cab Franc, and specifically the T23, is what we do best.”
“In a margarita the flavors are quite similar; it really comes down to how "boozy" you want your drink to taste (bear in mind that a stronger-tasting drink may be less likely to be heedlessly guzzled).”
“This opens with a very fizzy burst, and turns immediately into a kind of boozy floral.”
“Ms. McWHORTER: Gary Thomas Rowe, the kind of boozy-looking guy.”
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
“There is a reason the title character in The Drowsy Chaperone is a little sleepy: You could also call her the "boozy" or "tipsy" chaperone.”
“The afternoon session is the sweetest because it exists as stolen time; a kind of boozy twilight in which time seems both suspended and fleeting.”
“All said he should be stood down after he was charged - not convicted but charged - with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl following a "boozy" season launch last Friday.”
“Snuggies have been the butt of late-night TV jokes, hundreds of parodies on YouTube and countless Snuggie pub crawls - with groups looking like some kind of boozy, wizard cult.”
“You give new meaning to the word "boozy," babe, and you can spew your shit talk about your “recovery” and “process” and “balance” and “craft” all you want, but bottom line?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boozy’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 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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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boozy.
yarb Citation on chitterlings. Jun 26, 2008