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单词 boozy
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Definition of boozy in English:

boozy

adjectiveboozier, booziest ˈbuːziˈbuzi
informal
  • Characterized by drinking large quantities of alcohol.

    a boozy lunch
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The plans, which include curtailing boozy social events and offering better support for students with drink problems, contrast with the heavy drinking culture prevalent among students in Scotland's medical schools.
    • He plays a boozy, washed-up lawyer who takes an 18-year-old legal whiz kid under his wing.
    • In place of a posturing virile hero, Sayles presents a boozy social recluse, the first in his lowlife parade of outsiders.
    • For many students, that translates into four years of late nights, pizza banquets and boozy weekends that start on Wednesday.
    • Churchill and I, in repeated cycles, suffer through the classic three stages of happy hour: boozy bonhomie, injurious repartee, then schmaltzy reconciliation.
    • And why shouldn't they have been boozy philanderers?
    • Anthony Cronin's telling portrait of the time, Dead as Doornails, portrays the boozy pub-centred milieu as a place where the attitude and drinking seemed nihilistic and alcoholism and underachievement were rife.
    • Legend has it that an actor came up with the name at a boozy New Year's Eve party in 1936.
    • However, a mention of the conundrum during a boozy dinner party provoked an interesting and lively debate, so perhaps you might also like to raise the matter over the Sunday roast.
    • Anyway, First Step is slightly darker and less boozy in tone than the later Faces albums are, but that's not to say that it's either dark or sober, because it sure ain't.
    • It doesn't have the boozy recklessness of the harder Stranger's Almanac, nor does it have the delicate emotional fragility of Heartbreaker.
    • When we first see the rooster, he's gargling some water, and he's bleary-eyed; obviously, he just got up after a long boozy night.
    • A lifestyle of heavy drinking became ingrained, and was made worse by his working environment, where boozy lunches were the norm.
    • Afterward, he heads for a downtown bar, a den of boozy young people being assaulted by rust-belt karaoke singers.
    • In a sample of 12 foreign visits, boozy councillors and officers drank their way through £1,060 of alcohol and spent £430 on phone calls.
    • If, back on that boozy tour in 1993, someone had told us that we would one day be mobbed outside that hotel after winning the World Cup, we would probably have bought him a pint, slapped him on the back and told him he was a very, very funny man.
    • She admits to the odd bout of boozy indulgence like the rest of us.
    • After such a vivacious, boozy evening you'd think I'd have fallen asleep the moment my head hit the pillow.
    • It's a boozy punk stew that doesn't even sound like the same band who would within a few years record Let It Be or Tim.
    • Nowadays drinking in most workplaces is frowned upon, and the boozy culture of Westminster increasingly appears a dangerous anachronism.
    • Maybe once a year, at Christmas parties and such, he talks to Marianne - boozy, sociable conversations that, strangely, he finds himself thinking about later.
    • In hindsight, the boozy requiem wasn't just for Hindery, but for an era.
    • A drunken man who attacked a black cab after a boozy night out has been ordered to pay £648 in compensation.
    • I suppose she's right, I think, as I leave Harris Manchester College for a delicious and boozy lunch on the High Street with my distinguished student.
    • In her twenties she worked as a director of a property company in London, existing on coffee, Danish pastries, convenience foods and long boozy lunches.
    • The friend you invited to your boozy Christmas lunch is a recovering alcoholic.
    • Yet the story's emotional center is Evangeline's boozy husband, Warren Slote, a soul-ravaged World War II veteran.
    • Once you've had your fill of boozy friskiness, cool down with a visit to Aros, the city's brand-new museum of modern art.
    • Smooth, sophisticated, and with a slurpability that belies its richness, it is subtly sweet and, needless to say, very, very boozy.
    • It will take decades—at least—for any serious dent to be made in Britain and Scotland's boozy culture.
    • ‘Every sign has its keynote flavours,’ she says of the idea, which ‘came out of a boozy lunch with the manager’.
    • It's quite a dark comedy and anyone who's ever been on a boozy night out in a club like this will recognise the characters.
    • It was only after Ava Gardner shoved him into a black sea of despair that Frank was able to transform from a washed-up bobbysox warbler into the undisputed master of the boozy saloon ballad.
    • ‘Sideways,’ the Oscar-winning film about two buddies touring the central California wine country on the eve of the wedding of one of them, is one long and boozy man date.
    • That's when Icelandic rap shares the bill with boozy jug music from the '70s.
    • A mum today launched a campaign to hammer home the dangers of binge drinking after her schoolboy son nearly died following a boozy night out.
    Synonyms
    debauched, dissipated, riotous, carousing, revelling, roistering, uproarious, unruly, intemperate, unrestrained, uninhibited, abandoned

Derivatives

  • boozily

  • adverb
    informal
    • Thinks clicked together, boozily, in my brain.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I took these pictures afterwards, while we were boozily walking back to our hotels on the boardwalk.
      • We went to the village, to sit outside and natter, boozily.
      • Today (and not last Saturday, as Bar Talk boozily misreported last week) is St Patrick's Day.
      • From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
  • booziness

  • noun
    informal
    • She has just spent the better part of an hour and a half entertaining me with booziness and chocolate.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a bank holiday so expect booziness.
      • Imagine the damage you could do by adding even a little booziness to the equation.
      • The edges have been softened with a 1000 watt power sander, but tonight the band still carry themselves with nonchalance and careless booziness as usual.
      • Nothing matches either the gritty buzz-pop highs or the dreamy drugged-out booziness of the slower material on their debut.

Rhymes

bluesy, choosy, doozy, floozie, jacuzzi, medusae, newsy, oozy, Pusey, snoozy, Susie, Uzi, woozy
 
 

Definition of boozy in US English:

boozy

adjectiveˈbuziˈbo͞ozē
informal
  • Intoxicated; addicted to drink.

    the boozy and drugged-out wreckage of his later years
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Afterward, he heads for a downtown bar, a den of boozy young people being assaulted by rust-belt karaoke singers.
    • Nowadays drinking in most workplaces is frowned upon, and the boozy culture of Westminster increasingly appears a dangerous anachronism.
    • Churchill and I, in repeated cycles, suffer through the classic three stages of happy hour: boozy bonhomie, injurious repartee, then schmaltzy reconciliation.
    • That's when Icelandic rap shares the bill with boozy jug music from the '70s.
    • It doesn't have the boozy recklessness of the harder Stranger's Almanac, nor does it have the delicate emotional fragility of Heartbreaker.
    • ‘Sideways,’ the Oscar-winning film about two buddies touring the central California wine country on the eve of the wedding of one of them, is one long and boozy man date.
    • In a sample of 12 foreign visits, boozy councillors and officers drank their way through £1,060 of alcohol and spent £430 on phone calls.
    • She admits to the odd bout of boozy indulgence like the rest of us.
    • When we first see the rooster, he's gargling some water, and he's bleary-eyed; obviously, he just got up after a long boozy night.
    • He plays a boozy, washed-up lawyer who takes an 18-year-old legal whiz kid under his wing.
    • It's a boozy punk stew that doesn't even sound like the same band who would within a few years record Let It Be or Tim.
    • I suppose she's right, I think, as I leave Harris Manchester College for a delicious and boozy lunch on the High Street with my distinguished student.
    • And why shouldn't they have been boozy philanderers?
    • It's quite a dark comedy and anyone who's ever been on a boozy night out in a club like this will recognise the characters.
    • However, a mention of the conundrum during a boozy dinner party provoked an interesting and lively debate, so perhaps you might also like to raise the matter over the Sunday roast.
    • In her twenties she worked as a director of a property company in London, existing on coffee, Danish pastries, convenience foods and long boozy lunches.
    • Yet the story's emotional center is Evangeline's boozy husband, Warren Slote, a soul-ravaged World War II veteran.
    • Legend has it that an actor came up with the name at a boozy New Year's Eve party in 1936.
    • After such a vivacious, boozy evening you'd think I'd have fallen asleep the moment my head hit the pillow.
    • If, back on that boozy tour in 1993, someone had told us that we would one day be mobbed outside that hotel after winning the World Cup, we would probably have bought him a pint, slapped him on the back and told him he was a very, very funny man.
    • A lifestyle of heavy drinking became ingrained, and was made worse by his working environment, where boozy lunches were the norm.
    • Smooth, sophisticated, and with a slurpability that belies its richness, it is subtly sweet and, needless to say, very, very boozy.
    • A drunken man who attacked a black cab after a boozy night out has been ordered to pay £648 in compensation.
    • Anyway, First Step is slightly darker and less boozy in tone than the later Faces albums are, but that's not to say that it's either dark or sober, because it sure ain't.
    • It was only after Ava Gardner shoved him into a black sea of despair that Frank was able to transform from a washed-up bobbysox warbler into the undisputed master of the boozy saloon ballad.
    • ‘Every sign has its keynote flavours,’ she says of the idea, which ‘came out of a boozy lunch with the manager’.
    • A mum today launched a campaign to hammer home the dangers of binge drinking after her schoolboy son nearly died following a boozy night out.
    • Maybe once a year, at Christmas parties and such, he talks to Marianne - boozy, sociable conversations that, strangely, he finds himself thinking about later.
    • For many students, that translates into four years of late nights, pizza banquets and boozy weekends that start on Wednesday.
    • The friend you invited to your boozy Christmas lunch is a recovering alcoholic.
    • Once you've had your fill of boozy friskiness, cool down with a visit to Aros, the city's brand-new museum of modern art.
    • Anthony Cronin's telling portrait of the time, Dead as Doornails, portrays the boozy pub-centred milieu as a place where the attitude and drinking seemed nihilistic and alcoholism and underachievement were rife.
    • It will take decades—at least—for any serious dent to be made in Britain and Scotland's boozy culture.
    • In hindsight, the boozy requiem wasn't just for Hindery, but for an era.
    • The plans, which include curtailing boozy social events and offering better support for students with drink problems, contrast with the heavy drinking culture prevalent among students in Scotland's medical schools.
    • In place of a posturing virile hero, Sayles presents a boozy social recluse, the first in his lowlife parade of outsiders.
    Synonyms
    debauched, dissipated, riotous, carousing, revelling, roistering, uproarious, unruly, intemperate, unrestrained, uninhibited, abandoned
 
 
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