Stocious

Quick meaning: Stocious is an adjective meaning (Ireland, Scotland, slang) very drunk, intoxicated.

Meaning

(Ireland, Scotland, slang) very drunk, intoxicated.

Example Sentences

Asked by the committee chairman, Mr Batt O'Keeffe, why young people were going out at night "to get absolutely stocious drunk", he suggested young people were influenced by what they saw around them, including the excesses of adults.

By contrast they have a whole flock of words to discriminate the various degrees of intoxication. Beginning with the delightful “Drink-taken,” you have half-towed, sizzled, flukaw, flutered, spifflu, langers, and stocious. The last word rhymes with atrocious and means thickly speaking drunk. Anybody who is stocious ought to be taken home before he starts fighting—unless he is already past it, which he probably is.

Word Forms

• stotious
• stoshious
• stotius
• stocius
• stoshus
• stoshous
• stoshius
• stoatious
• stoshers

Synonyms for stocious

Depending on context, synonyms include drunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stoshious, steaming, overstout, fierce, stout, intoxicated.

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