drinkyadj.
/ˈdrɪŋki/ colloquial and dialect.
Tipsy; drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
merrya1382
semi-bousyc1460
pipe merry1542
totty1570
tipsy1577
martin-drunk1592
pleasant1596
mellow1611
tip-merry1612
flustered1615
lusticka1616
well to live1619
jolly1652
happy1662
hazy1673
top-heavy1687
hearty1695
half-seas-over1699
oiled1701
mellowish1703
half channelled over1709
drunkish1710
half-and-half1718
touched1722
uppisha1726
tosie1727
bosky1730
funny1751
fairish1756
cherry-merry1769
in suds1770
muddy1776
glorious1790
groggified1796
well-corned1800
fresh1804
to be mops and brooms1814
foggy1816
how-come-ye-so1816
screwy1820
off the nail1821
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821
swipey1821
muggy1822
rosy1823
snuffy1823
spreeish1825
elevated1827
up a stump1829
half-cockedc1830
tightish1830
tipsified1830
half shaved1834
screwed1837
half-shot1838
squizzed1845
drinky1846
a sheet in the wind1862
tight1868
toppy1885
tiddly1905
oiled-up1918
bonkers1943
sloshed1946
tiddled1956
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1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs 44 But then he was ‘drinky and played careless’.
1846 J. J. Hooper Taking Census in Some Adventures Simon Suggs 166 When a little ‘drinky’, he was wont to exhibit very fair horsemanship.
1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 92 Drinky, rather drunk. ‘He was drinky, but not rigglar drunk.’
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xii. 143 I've been drinky once this month already.
1901 ‘M. E. Francis’ Pastorals of Dorset 52 I've seen a man as was a bit drinky-like throw off his hat and tread on it.
1901 ‘M. E. Francis’ Pastorals of Dorset 236 He do seem to be a bit drinky.
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adj.1846