boozy

adj — 4 senses

boozy

adj

/ˈbuːzi/

Etymology From booze + -y.

1

Of a person Intoxicated by alcohol.

2

Of a person Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.

  • Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
3

Of an event Involving a large consumption of alcohol.

  • We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
  • Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:
4

Of food Containing or cooked with alcohol.

  • For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
  • You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use:
2 more examples
  • 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.2005, Frank A. Defilippo, Hooked, page 187:
  • Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.2012, Martha Holmberg, Crepes: 50 Savory and Sweet Recipes, page 116:
Synonyms
drunk, sottish, alcoholic
Derived terms
boozily, booziness

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