crapula
/ˈkɹapjʊlə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If it be not of long standing, and the griping be tolerable; if the effect of crapulas; if habitual, and the patient feeds well, and suffers no considerable loss of strength; or if it be critica, and proceed from an obstructed perspiration, 'tis seldom dangerous […]"
- "Perhaps the tonic medicines which have been mentioned, render the bowels a more quiet and comfortable asylum for them, and thereby provide the system with the means of obviating the effects of crapulas, to which all children are disposed."
- "Disorders sometimes happen to young calves from difference of milk, and frequently from giving them too great a quantity; then the case becomes a crapula, and death is the consequence."
- "[I]t was as much apprehension as crapula that had distracted him into admitting that the anonymous letter-writer had spoken some truth."
Etymology
From Latin crāpula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”).