boozy
/ˈbuːzi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.52 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Intoxicated by alcohol.
adj
Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
adj
Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
adj
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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English booze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English boozy From booze + -y.