Boozy

/ˈbuːzi/ · adjective

Meaning

(of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.
2. (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
3. (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
4. (of food) Containing or cooked with alcohol.

Example Sentences

Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]

We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.

Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.

For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.

You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.

Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste.

Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.

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Word Forms

• boozier
• booziest

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