Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

half cut

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables: half -cut
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Australian usage; Canadian usage; British usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"He had the girl's head on his shoulder but she was half cut and in her seventh heaven, so he just went on talking to me, proud of his English, you see."
"Drink up thy zider, drink up thy zider, For tonight we'll merry be. We'll knock the milk churns over and roll 'em in the clover, for the corn's half cut and so be we!"
"Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner."
"You think: "That old fella's woken up still half-cut and put on his girlfriend's shoes by mistake.""

Etymology

Originally jocular derivative of now rare use of cut in this sense, which dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more half cut (comparative) most half cut (superlative) half-cut (alternative, common)

Synonyms

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Questions

What does half cut mean?: Rather drunk.
Where does half cut come from?: Originally jocular derivative of now rare use of cut in this sense, which dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

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