boozy
/ˈbuːzi
/adjective (boozier, booziest) informal
Characterized by drinking large quantities of alcohol: a boozy lunch...
- The friend you invited to your boozy Christmas lunch is a recovering alcoholic.
- ‘Every sign has its keynote flavours,’ she says of the idea, which ‘came out of a boozy lunch with the manager’.
- 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.
Derivatives
boozily
- Today (and not last Saturday, as Bar Talk boozily misreported last week) is St Patrick's Day.
- We went to the village, to sit outside and natter, boozily.
- From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
booziness
- She has just spent the better part of an hour and a half entertaining me with booziness and chocolate.
- It's a bank holiday so expect booziness.
- 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.