Adam Dant’s Synonyms for Drunkenness
There are many reasons to reach for the bottle these days and – recognising the spirit of the times – Adam Dant has made this drawing illustrating synonyms for drunkenness. Click on his picture to enlarge and see how many you can identify from the list below.
Roaring
Away with the fairies
Dead drunk
Caned
Pasted
Varnished
Howling
Dead headed
In ones cups
Oiled
Hammered
Snookered
Out of ones tree
Pickled
Sauced
Plastered
Smashed
Beer goggles
Juiced
Off ones trolley
Trolleyed
Drunk as a lord
Drunk as a bishop
Mullahed
Barking drunk
Pie eyed
Tied one on
Three sheets to the wind
Guttered
Pot valiant
Wormed
Banging ones head against a brick wall
Peely wally
Tanked
Moroculus
Jazzed
Ming-hoed
Tuned in
Puggled
Jacked up
Pissed
Dipso
Guttered
Canned
Falling over drunk
Spangled
Ferreted
Leathered
Tiddly
Oliver Twist
Dot cotton
Goosed
Steaming
Hair of the dog
Moulting
Etched
Hog drunk
Legless
Fixed
Under the table
Swilled
Sauced
Tie one on
Stiffener
Zombies
Boiled as an owl
See the French king
Trashed
Badgered
Barrel drunk
Sick as a parrot
High as a kite
On a campaign
Torn up
Pissed as a fart
Off the wagon
Tipsy
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Bladdered?
Three sheets to the wind
Magotted
Molly the Monk
Pissed as a Neut
Fartarsed
Tiddly as
Word phrases to add to the compendium
As a translator, the list has gone straight to my heart. I absolutely love “Pissed as a fart”, “Boiled as an owl” and “Three sheets to the wind”. Thanks and have a good Sunday.
Absolutely LOVE it!!!!! Working through the list.
tight; wasted come to mind.
You don’t use peely wally to describe being drunk, but you might the day after you’re drunk to describe the way you look when you’re hungover! It just means you look pale and unwell, pasty.
Douglas Badered. Or Douglased. (Meaning legless).
I am impossible at this, since being an American I don’t know the British idiom. But I was delighted with the drawing. Adam Dant’s answer to Hogarth!
On his or her lips or walking with their lips. Polluted, knee walking, blotto.
Great illustration.
“He’s lip walking” was how I first heard it. 🙂
Being a reader of Pepy’s Diary, I’ve come across his use of the word “foxed” for drunkeness. It occurs more than once!
Shit-faced
Half in the bag
Annihilated
He missed the best one: Brahms and Liszt. Equals pissed. Equals drunk.