# How many synonyms for "drunk" can you come up with in a language that you speak?
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**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269 "2023-08-08T19:37:06Z")
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/41 "2023-08-09T00:39:41Z")
I like the term **“polluted”.**
There’s also **“in his (her) cups”**.
ETA: Oh dear. Ninja’d on the “cups” thing.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/42 "2023-08-09T00:43:07Z")
I thought _Blitzen_ was one of Santas reindeer.
😊
Maybe he was celebrating too much.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/43 "2023-08-09T00:51:37Z")
three sheets to the wind
face-walking down the gutter
buzzed
Torn down
All the rest have been listed already
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/44 "2023-08-09T01:20:33Z")
There was a _For Better or For Worse_ strip in which Michael and one of his friends were making a list like this. After asking, and being told, what they were doing, Elizabeth suggested adding “stupid”.
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### Author:  [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/45 "2023-08-09T01:21:50Z")
blammed
tore up (often pronounced “toe up” in my experience)
well lubricated
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/46 "2023-08-09T01:25:36Z")
Crapulous
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### Author:  [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/47 "2023-08-09T02:05:20Z")
Italian: umbriaco. I’m pretty sure that’s not formal Italian. My mom’s dialect was kind of funky. Her father was an “umbriaco,” a drunk. (There’s a different word for “alcoholic,” but I don’t know what it is.) I heard that word more often, only it was pronounced “umbriaggo.”
I took Italian in college. I told the prof (Roman) my mother was from a little village in Italy. He asked which one. I said, “Oliveto Citra.” He asked rather archly what that meant, and I said, “Little Olive City.” He said no, it didn’t, because “city” is citta, not cittra. I said, "Well, you’d better get over there and tell them because they’re all convinced it’s “cittra.” After that he treated me like I was Ellie Mae Clampett at a linguistics convention.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/48 "2023-08-09T02:46:00Z")
Interesting! I’m studying Italian and the verb I learned is “ubriacarsi,” a reflexive verb meaning to get (oneself) drunk. Ubriaco/a is to be drunk (o/a depending on whether you are male or female). Informal terms for being drunk are brillo (an adjective) and sbronzo (another adjective). If you’re sbronzo, you’re drunker than if you are brillo.
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### Author:  [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/49 "2023-08-09T06:51:46Z")
Two more in Spanish: _cogorza_ and _castaña_. They’re nouns that are used with verbs like _llevar_ (carry) or _tener_ (have).
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/50 "2023-08-09T07:23:18Z")
Yes, indeed, good ones! And in _Rayuela_ by Cortázar I remember the protagonist mentioning having a colossal _sbornia_, which apparently they use in Argentina, though of course it is [Italian](https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/sbornia/).
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/51 "2023-08-09T15:42:01Z")
I use “happy” for when I’m drunk.
Also “toasted”.
ETA: These terms are English.
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/52 "2023-08-09T16:42:39Z")
“feeling no pain”
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/53 "2023-08-09T17:48:02Z")
Good one. Otherwise this Gordon Lightfoot lyric makes no sense:
Sometimes I think it’s a shame
When I get feelin’ better when I’m feelin’ no pain.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/54 "2023-08-09T19:52:17Z")
“Riding the blind” is an evocative term for “getting drunk” that was often used in old Blues songs.
ETA: I googled it and it looks like I may be wrong, unless there’s been more than one meaning:
> **[Urban Dictionary: ride the blind](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ride%20the%20blind)**
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> to ride between the cars of a moving freight or passenger train to avoid being spotted by the train's crew or police
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/55 "2023-08-09T20:01:45Z")
Huh, based on a search of the thread nobody’s put in **inebriated** yet?
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### Author:  [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/56 "2023-08-09T20:12:33Z")
Couple more ‘Bs’:-
Bladdered
Bollocksed
And
Off their face
Razzled
Twatted (also means to hit someone or something)
All British English.
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/57 "2023-08-09T20:13:09Z")
Locally, the idiom “drunk as a skunk” has yielded the adjective “skunked”.
Am I the first to mention English “fucked up”?
…
I see in this thread that there seem to be several colloquial words for “drunk” in Romance languages that mean literally “bright” or similar – reminds me of English “lit”. I first thought that the German _breit_ might have been in that same class, but it looks like not.
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### Author:  [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/58 "2023-08-10T10:07:31Z")
> [@nelliebly](#):
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> Ellie Mae Clampett
A cute one in French that hasn’t been mentioned is _pompette_, meaning tipsy, buzzed. It might be a bit old-fashioned, though.
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/59 "2023-08-10T10:20:12Z")
I couldn’t be arsed to read through them all. But by post 30something I still hadn’t seen…
Turnt
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/60 "2023-08-10T12:10:41Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
>
> this thread needs a soundtrack. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarFyC7618A) it is!
or this:
> **[The Philosopher's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfCTBkMgKY%2F)**
>
> Monty Python
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