{"id":6025,"date":"2017-04-21T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2017-04-20T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:52:12","slug":"english-vocab-for-drinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/english-vocab-for-drinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"English Vocab for Drinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Learning English isn\u2019t easy. It\u2019s a complicated, sometimes almost incomprehensible language with rules that rarely seem to make any sense. In fact, it sometimes seems that English was made up by people who were drunk.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the subject of today\u2019s blog. The English language is filled with colorful words and phrases for the act of being drunk. You might conclude that we native speakers spend a great deal of time thinking about the subject \u2013 and you would be absolutely correct! Warning<\/strong>: Not all of these terms are considered polite, so you are advised to consider carefully before sharing them with others. Of course, after a few drinks, who\u2019s going to care?<\/p>\n

Words<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bashed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blasted<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blitzed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blotto<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buzzed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cabbaged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clobbered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crapulent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crocked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Decimated<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fecked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flushed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flying<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gassed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gonzo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Half-cocked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Half-cut<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hammered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inebriated<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intoxicated<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kippered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legless<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loaded<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looped<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lubricated<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lush<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muckibus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newcastled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ossified<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paralytic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pickled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pie-eyed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pissed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plastered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plowed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Potted<\/strong><\/p>\n

Primed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rat-legged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Razzled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rubbered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruined<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sauced<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shit-faced<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slammed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sloshed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smashed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spiffed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steaming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stewed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tight<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tipsy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tits-up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tosspot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Totaled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trashed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trousered<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tub-thumping<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wall-eyed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wasted<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrecked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zombied<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Idioms<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ass over teakettle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Away with the fairies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chemically inconvenienced<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comfortably numb<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drunk as a lord<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drunk as a skunk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Examining the footpath<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feeling no pain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Full of bug juice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got my beer goggles on<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had a snoot full<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had one too many<\/strong><\/p>\n

Half in the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Higher than a kite<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his (her) cups<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jober as a sudge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lit like a Christmas tree<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicely irrigated with horizontal lubricant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Off my pickle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Off my trolley<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a bender<\/strong><\/p>\n

One foot on the floor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pissed up<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rubber legged<\/strong><\/p>\n

So wet he ripples<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three sheets to the wind<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under full sail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the influence<\/strong><\/p>\n

This, of course, is a partial list. The BBC<\/a> claims that there are 3000 words in the English language for being drunk. If you have any favorite terms, please share them with us! In the meantime, I\u2019ll leave you with the immortal words of entertainer, and famous drinker, Dean Martin.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Learning English isn\u2019t easy. It\u2019s a complicated, sometimes almost incomprehensible language with rules that rarely seem to make any sense. In fact, it sometimes seems that English was made up by people who were drunk. Which brings me to the subject of today\u2019s blog. The English language is filled with colorful words and phrases for…<\/p>\n

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