drunkard

US /ˈdɹʌŋkɚd/

Etymology From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”). Compare German Trunkart. Compare braggart.

Synonyms

58 terms

alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, sucker, suck-pint, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop, wino

Antonyms

on the wagon, pioneer, teetotaller, teetotaler

Derived terms

drunkardess, drunkardliness, drunkardly, drunkardness, drunkard noodles, drunkardry, drunkard's walk

Related terms

drunk, drunken, glutton, libertine, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, drunkenness

Hypernyms

person, imbiber, partaker, sensualist, wasteoid

Hyponyms

rubby-dub, vodkaholic