# 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:  [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/61 "2023-08-10T13:08:27Z")
> [@griffin1977](#):
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> In British Army tradition officers are never “drunk” they are “tired and emotional”…
This may be true, but I was unaware of it. I would have said it was sly code for drunk, which originated in the satirical magazine Private Eye, but checking suggests [its origin is older than that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_and_emotional).
My British contribution: Elephant’s (as in, _He’s proper elephant’s._…)
Explanation: (It’s rhyming slang, of course, without which this thread would be incomplete - shortened from Elephant’s Trunk.)
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ETA: Damn, I should also have included Brahms (Brahms and Liszt)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/62 "2023-08-10T18:45:21Z")
I thought of two more in German, but I’m quite sure they are only in local use in my regional dialect of Westphalian:
_dicke_ - “dick” means thick, fat or large, and this is definitely derived from that word, only with an added “e”
_strunkelig_ - untranslatable, typical Westphalian word
ETA:
have another, pan-German term
_die Lampen anhaben_ - to have the lights on
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/63 "2024-08-03T02:31:36Z")
Snockered
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/64 "2024-08-03T05:55:37Z")
I recently read _hang dogged_
as drunk.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/65 "2024-08-03T07:12:50Z")
Stymied (pronounced SHTY-meed)
Gooned
Dremeled - The point of inebriation where the world is spinning (and it’s rough!)
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/66 "2024-08-03T07:51:50Z")
Half in the bag
In the bag
Pixelated
Hammered
Got an ass full
Fucked up
Stoned
Sauced
Tight
Blasted
Toasted
Lit up
Baked
Loaded
Plastered
Spirited
Sloshed
Those are all I could think of on my own. I’m sure if I Googled it there would be a bunch I forgot about.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-synonyms-for-drunk-can-you-come-up-with-in-a-language-that-you-speak/988269/67 "2024-08-03T08:22:11Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> estar mona (to be monkey),
My cat (whose name is Monkey) thought this was hilarious …
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> to have one in the shoe
… I’m less amused at this one.
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