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Webster 1913 Edition
Boozy
Booz′y
,Adj.
A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
[Colloq.]
C. Kingsley.
Definition 2024
boozy
boozy
English
Adjective
boozy (comparative boozier, superlative booziest)
- (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.
- (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
- He's normally quite a boozy person, but isn't drinking so much these days.
- (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
- We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
- (of food) Containing or cooked with alcohol.
- For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
- 1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use:
- You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.
- 2005, Frank A. Defilippo, Hooked, page 187:
- Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste.
- 2012, Martha Holmberg, Crepes: 50 Savory and Sweet Recipes, page 116:
- Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.
Translations
intoxicated by alcohol
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inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol
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containing or cooked with alcohol
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