crapulent
/ˈkrapjʊl(ə)nt
/adjective literary
Relating to the drinking of alcohol or drunkenness.It was a difficult choice by anyone's reckoning: suffer the cackling of crapulent in-laws tanking themselves up on festive sherry, or make your excuses and leave the room to go and suffer the Christmas Supplement....
- A beer-bellied, crapulent friend had asked, ‘What're the numbers for?’
Derivatives
crapulence
- The effect on most of us will be an attack of acute crapulence (okay, so look it up), caused by our forced overconsumption of political prattle and forensic flatulence.
- With their first new album since 1998, we must ask: have they avoided the soul sucking crapulence that haunts so many other bands that continue on into their second decade?
- Research carried out by the British Scientific Dining Association reveals that crapulence has bad effects on the memory and makes people slow-witted.
crapulous
- For some of us, that's a worrisome vow, portending crapulous fathers who imbibe paychecks, pious wives who berate husbands for same and hordes of children wailing in squalor.
- Presumably these people are at these places every night and I can think of worse things to do than to amble through your late middle age in a crapulous haze.
- At the time I was a little too crapulous to register what had happened.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin crapulentus 'very drunk', from Latin crapula 'inebriation', from Greek kraipalē 'drunken headache'.