drunkenly

English

Etymology

From drunken +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

drunkenly (comparative more drunkenly, superlative most drunkenly)

1. In a drunken manner.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
     For that I was his father Edward's son;
     That blood already, like the pelican,
     Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:

   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck‎:

     […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.

Synonyms

• bibulously
• intoxicatedly
• leglessly
• winefully

Translations

in a drunken manner

Esperanto: ebrie Georgian: ბარბაცით (barbacit) Hungarian: ittasan (hu) Ido: ebrie (io) Norman: ivrément Polish: pijacko (pl) Ukrainian: п'я́но (pʺjáno)