boozy

[boo-zee] /ˈbu zi/

adjective, boozier, booziest.

drunken; intoxicated.

addicted to liquor.

Origin

1520-30; booze + -y¹

Related forms

boozily, adverb

booziness, noun

Examples from the web for boozy

Prodded by boozy dares, bikers raced one another down the main drag.
In part, these pubs are boozy outriders to the local-food movement.
Waterproof shell wards off boozy spills from cramped coach seatmates.
Nights at our house were fun and boozy and warm because of her.
But perhaps targeting the company's failure to turn boozy fantasies into reality was the wrong tactic.
Tomorrow is the final day at work for many of my colleagues, and the send-off will likely turn boozy and teary.
They enlist the aid of the late fighter's boozy brother, who was also a fighter.
But it wasn't at a raucous convention or a boozy, after-work party.

British Dictionary definitions for boozy

/ˈbuːzɪ/

adjective boozier, booziest

(informal) inclined to or involving excessive drinking of alcohol; drunken: a boozy lecturer, a boozy party

Derived Forms

booziness, noun

Word Origin and History for boozy

adj.

"inebriated," 1719, from booze + -y (2). It was one of Benjamin Franklin's 225 synonyms for "drunk" published in 1722. Related: Boozily; booziness.

Slang definitions & phrases for boozy

adjective

Drunk •Found in the 225 terms meaning ''drunk'' that Benjamin Franklin published in 1722 (1720+)