Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very drunk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Utterly drunk; very drunk.
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- adjective
Very drunk . - adjective Scotland
Overcome withdrink .
Etymologies
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From Middle English, from Old English fordrunken, past participle of fordrincan ("to make drunk, be drunk"), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *drinkanan (“to drink”), equivalent to for- + drunken. Cognate with Dutch verdronken ("drowned"), German vertrunken ("drunk"), Danish fordrukken ("drunken, very drunk"), Icelandic fordrukkinn ("drunken, very drunk"). More at for-, drunken.
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