Folklore: How do you say drunk?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 06:56 PM

scuttered is Irish and one of my favourites, out of his tree, faceless,ratted,pissing down your own leg drunk,jober as a sudge...erm, sure I know more if I think about it.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: khandu
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 06:51 PM

In my hometown, one of the "ladies of Society" would always respond, when asked about her husband (who was a terrible drunkard), "He is a bit 'indisposed' at this time"

It became a joke to all of us "hooligans". We never got drunk, but as often as possible we were a "bit indisposed".

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:36 PM

Dunno where I got this: Slightly sideways

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:25 PM

Dangerous behind the wheel of a car ?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: open mike
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:22 PM

didn'tlame deer also use the term frog skins
for money (or dead presidents)? funny i do not
know if he knew the other uses for skins of amphibians..

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:15 PM

Sloshed
awash
leaning to port
snugged or snogged
flawd (obsolete, English)

A late Saturday night train is a "drunkard" in U. S. railroad parlance.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:07 PM

Blotto. Drunk as a skunk. Wasted. Drunk as a boiled owl. (That last one is a Native American expression gleaned from the book "Lame Deer - Seeker of Visions" It's a very cool book, with some great anecdotes. Another expression Lame Deer uses is to describe someone who leaves a scene very quickly, saying "he took off like a greased fart up a lightning rod".)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 05:04 PM

blotto
wasted

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 04:47 PM

So no-one has offered 'wankered' yet then.

Stoatin' is known dahn sarf as carooming - from the noise produced as you bounce off a lamp post or car wing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Strupag
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 04:16 PM

Definately no r's in Stoatin' Orkthen unless yer landin' on it.
Stotious is the noun. Stoatin' is the verb
Believe me I'm a wee bit of an authority on this. I've had mony sorry Heids tae prove it!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 04:10 PM

Drunker than Cooter Brown.

Although, I have no idea who Cooter Brown is.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:57 PM

DAMN! I misread that at first. I thought it said, "How do you stay drunk?" It's a shame it didn't, because I know how to do that...
Sloshed.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:52 PM

Borracho!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: vindelis
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM

maized

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: okthen
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:30 PM

I was once told that the Scots have 40 different words for the different degrees of inebriety, I can't remember them now except my favourite "stortin" which refers to that curious state when attempting to walk a straight line down the pavement you find yourself bouncing off the walls,houses etc.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:29 PM

a couple I've only heard in my home town:

hung out with the wash

on the line

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: Strupag
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:26 PM

Great idea for a thread - some Scots ones :-
Maukit
Blootered
Marak or miraculus
Stotious
Cannie bite his finger
Pished as a fart (always with a sh)
On the electric juice
On the Skite (Orkney I believe)
Fealing nae pain
Been on the bevvie
Pished as a newt / Relaxed as a newt
Bladdered
Blitzed

That's just scratching the surface.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: smallpiper
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:21 PM

Lrunk as a Dord
Pizzedasanewt
Hic
Blaaaaaaaarggggggggggh!
Jober as a sudge

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:21 PM

pissed also used in the US.

"Down among the Dead Men!"

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: C-flat
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:19 PM

I forgot the most popular one in the U.K.
........Pissed........
Which of course is used much differently in the States.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: C-flat
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:17 PM

Well oiled
Pie-eyed
Rat-arsed
Bladdered
Mashed
Steaming
Tanked up

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: open mike
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:09 PM

i remember hearing a list of these terms from the Swedes--including
under the table
in their cups
in medical/emergency radio talk it is referred to as:
ETOH on board
ET OH is chemical formula for what? ethly alcohol?
or H.B.D. (has been drinking)
also how about:
inibriated
tipsy
86'ed

Subject: RE: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:08 PM

pie-eyed
schnozzled
tanked

Subject: BS: How do you say drunk?
From: reggie miles
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 03:01 PM

After our show the other night one of my musical partners comments about how various cultures have many different ways for referring to being drunk. He then began listing the many ways he knew of and indeed there were many. I drove the hour or so back home that evening fighting the static on my AM radio as I made my way back up into the foothills, trying to find something to listen to, and began to consider this a worthwhile quesion to put forth here. There are good number of us who perform in clubs and pubs everywhere. We've seen prime examples of this and many of us have been there ourselves. So, just for fun, how many different ways can you say drunk where you're from?

plastered
smashed
looped
snookered
snockered
s__t faced
Plowed
three sheets to the wind
over the limit
intoxicated
rummy
sloppy
sot
loaded
out of it
slammed
pickled
hammered