adj
Meaning 1
Intoxicated by alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
boozy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbuːzi/
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rhymes with -uːzi
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CMU ARPABET: B UW1 Z IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Containing or cooked with alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bibulous fellow
- a bibulous evening
- his boozy drinking companions
- thick boozy singing
- a drunken binge
- two drunken gentlemen holding each other up
- sottish behavior
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English booze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English boozy From booze + -y.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: hoenderkop — intoxicated by alcohol
- Czech: ožralý — intoxicated by alcohol
- Finnish: humalainen — intoxicated by alcohol
- Portuguese: bebado — intoxicated by alcohol
- Russian: пья́ный (pʹjányj) — intoxicated by alcohol
- Russian: подда́тый (poddátyj) — intoxicated by alcohol
- Spanish: borracho — intoxicated by alcohol
- Spanish: ebrio — intoxicated by alcohol
- Spanish: escabio — intoxicated by alcohol
- Spanish: escabiado — intoxicated by alcohol
- Czech: nasávající — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Finnish: viinaan menevä — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Māori: porohaurangi — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Russian: пью́щий (pʹjúščij) — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Russian: пья́нствующий (pʹjánstvujuščij) — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Spanish: escabiador — inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
- Finnish: kostea — involving large consumption of alcohol
- Finnish: viinanhöyryinen — involving large consumption of alcohol
- Spanish: escabio — involving large consumption of alcohol
- Finnish: alkoholipitoinen — containing or cooked with alcohol