bedrunken

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English

Etymology

Past participle of bedrink

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʌŋkən
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Adjective

bedrunken (comparative more bedrunken, superlative most bedrunken)

  1. drunken, drunk.
    • 1895, William Morris, transl., Beowulf:
      Full oft have they boasted with beer well bedrunken
    • 2006, Barbara Outland Baker, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak:
      A little bedrunken, we delved into the analysis of what it felt like to talk to my old boyfiend, now a candidate for governor.
    • 2010, Andy Duroe, In Desperate Search of the Lesser Spotted Pink Salamander from Ghangi Blah:
      Normally he could whip all and sundry, but in his be-drunken state he had already survived several almost fatal bad beatings.

Synonyms

Low German

Etymology

Past participle from bedrinken. Cognate to Dutch bedronken.

Adjective

bedrunken (comparative bedrunkener, superlative bedrunkenst)

  1. drunk, drunken

Declension

Synonyms

Plautdietsch

Adjective

bedrunken

  1. drunk, drunken, intoxicated