boozy adj.
1. drunk; drunken.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The West-Country Jigg’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 344: Then up with Aley, Aley, with boozy Bridget too. | |
| Squire of Alsatia I i: You know we were boosy last night; I am a little hot-headed this morning. | |
| Hudibras Redivivus II:4 14: Amongst a Crowd of Sots, half boozy, / With ev’ry one his tattling Huzzy. | |
| Devil to Pay II i: I am boozy, by the Lord Harry! | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Boosey. Drunk. |
| ‘The General Opinion’ Buck’s Delight 30: Our Mayor, Lord bless him, whose former delight, / Was to make a day’s work of being boozy at night. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 73: Last night a little boozy, / With whisky, ale and cider —. | |
| Real Life in London I 633: Fly, ye prigs, for now’s the hour, / (Tho’ boosey kids have lost their power) . | |
| High Life in London 13 Jan. 5/4: Your companions [...] are all boozy. | |
| ‘Margate’ Facetiae 12: Old Philpot, I declare, A boosey little man I guess. | |
| Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Sept. 14 n.p.: They found them rather boosy, money all spent . | |
| Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth II 176: He was seldom downright drunk; but was often [...] a little boozy. | |
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: If the young mewn did not get so boosey that they allowed the ladies to drive. | |
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 21 May n.p.: What made Dad so boosy [...] when he couldn’t tell one o clock from four. | |
| Book of Snobs (1889) 97: The boozy unshorn wretch is seen hovering around quays as packets arrive, and tippling drams in inn bars where he gets credit. | |
| N.Y. in Slices 81: Some member of the party gets unusually boozy, or excited with his losses, and breaks up the concee’ in a grand row. | |
| Fast Man n.d. n.p.: Let your friend send the lady to our boozey chum, Jem Brown, for a day or two, he’d cure her. | |
| N.Y. Clipper 17 Dec. 3/3: [T]hey i/eoome a ‘little boozy,’ not drunk, mind you, because gentlemen who drink wine only get ‘slightly inebriated’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 12 Jan. 3/3: Nash was very lushy, Connors tipsy, and Buzzy getting boosey, or just getting on the go. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Mar. 26/2: types no. 4 — the boozy majorBehold his protuberant paunch resteth lovingly against the table, and his jolly red nose gloweth like a fiery beacon . | |
| Burlington Sentinel in (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] boosy. | |
| Gaslight and Daylight 212: A small picture panel of a Dutch Boor, boosy, as usual, and bestriding a barrel of his beloved beer. | |
| Down in Tennessee 88: Little progress had been made in getting the sentinel boozy. | |
| Letters by an Odd Boy 160: ’ I see a man that I should say was drunk; he is boozy, screwed, stewed, tight, lumpy, ploughed, muddied, obfuscated, top-heavy, with three sheets in the wind! | |
| ‘Six Years in the Prisons of England’ in Temple Bar Mag. Nov. 536: There’s old Dick over in that bed there; he used to go ‘mumping,’ and when he got boosey with too much lush he stole some paltry thing or other. | |
| Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We allow ourselves to say [...] of the drunken man that he is ‘tight,’ or ‘boozy’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Apr. 22/1: To which the gentle maid who was being fondly nursed on the sofa replied, ‘[...] if it comes to that, our friends are quite as much gentlemen as your pair of boosy bagmen’. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) VIII 1716: Martha and Nelly had tippled with what I had brought them [...] and now Nell was quietly boozy. | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 25 Oct. 2/2: ‘Impossible,’ replied the boozy pencillor, ‘figures cannot lie’. | |
| Bushranger’s Sweetheart 135: It ain’t likely that a [...] girl is going to look after a boosy bushman for nothing, is it? | |
| [perf. Vesta Tilley] The New Policeman 🎵 Two ladies with a boozy mash I saw - claimed half their plunder. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 July 1/6: For the missus she was shikkered — / Boozey — off her rocker — tight! | |
| ‘Charley was a Good, Good Boy’ 🎵 With six boosey pals for keepers / He woke the neighbouring sleepers / And he blacked the bobby's ‘peepers’ like a good, good boy. | |
| ‘Central Connecticut Word-List’ in DN III:i 4: boozy, adj. drunk. | |
 | ‘The Sacred Place’ in Lone Hand May 48: They had no truck with [...] the scraggy, boozy, white ‘push’. | |
| ‘The Protean Policeman’ Sporting Times 26 Nov. 1/3: A boozy navvy came upon the scene. | |
| Truth (Perth) 1 Oct. 10/8: For to boosey get are wrong, sir, / Well, of course, who sez its not! | |
| Trying Out Torchy 37: ‘Then he ain’t been shot or carved up by Boozy Bill yet?’. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 17 Aug. 11/4: For to pay a boozey lawyer, / Who requires a recompense / In the shape of half a guinea. | |
| ‘Gila Monster Route’ in Hobo 195: He shook them out of their boozy nap, / With a husky voice and a loaded sap. | |
| Redheap (1965) 152: With his candle lit, he remained picking at the grease, in a boozey effort to recall something forgotten. | |
| Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 130: Get in, you boozy sod! | |
| Diaries 3 Feb. 21: That delightful boy with such a voice whom I got boozy with upon two distinctly memorable occasions. | |
| Sleep with Strangers (1983) [ebook] ‘Maybe you were a little crazy, too, from living with your boozy mother’. | |
| Room at the Top (1959) 118: You’ve used the words often enough with your boozy friends. | |
| Why Are We in Vietnam? (1970) 4: Halleloo is talking in her bitchy boozy voice. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 152: Dean was boozy enough for a crying jag now. | |
| Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 245: The singing reached a boozy crescendo. | |
| Godson 53: boozy baronet butts black-clad bore howled the headline. | |
| Between the Devlin 82: [H]e was a bit boozy and light-headed. | |
| Guardian Guide 5–12 June 55: His only friend in all the world being boozy lawyer Reggie Love. | |
| Guardian Editor 21 Jan. 14: Gone, too, are boozy lunches. | |
| Lush Life 18: Berkmann’s was empty, delivered from the previous night’s overpacked boozy freneticness . | |
| ‘Lady Madeline’s Dive’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] Her boozy cackle filling the small room. | |
| Dirtbag, Massachusetts 205: [M]y boozy fuckface scamp self. |
2. redolent of alcohol; in fig. use.
| Truth (Sydney) 17 June 1/4: A hogshead full of boozey wet. | |
| Courier (Lincoln, NE) 10 Aug. 10/1: Easy Street [...] the pride of the boozy old town of Illinois [i.e. Peoria]. | |
| Through the Wheat 52: Play us somep’n sad an’ boozy. | |
| Tropic of Cancer (1963) 47: Perhaps it wasn’t so pleasant to smell that boozy breath of hers. | |
| Sleep with Strangers (1983) [ebook] ‘And brother, do I hate the stink of oil and gas and that boozy steam they have coming out of pipes all over’. | |
| Glitter Dome (1982) 102: The bearded young cop with boozy breath. | |
| (con. 1940s) Hold Tight (1990) 9: A sudden smell of cologne, sweet and boozey. | |
| Crumple Zone 43: Boozy sleep smell from Ootie’s still clothed body. | |
| Killing Pool 241: Whatever boozy flush is left drains out from his face. | |
| Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom. |
In derivatives
(Aus.) addicted to alcohol.
| Truth (Brisbane) 14 Mar. 11/4: Peepul wot gets booseylarey, / Spendln most of wot they get / At the pub around the corner, / They do allers be in debt. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) a drunkard.
| Account 31 July 🌐 We espied a § Boozey-Cock very bung, making Water against a Post [...] § Drunken Man. |