boozy

From booze +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːzi/

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• Rhymes: -uːzi

boozy (comparative boozier, superlative booziest)

1. (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol.
2. (of a person) Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]

3. (of an event) Involving a large consumption of alcohol.

   We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.

   • 2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245:

     Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.

4. (of food) Containing or cooked with alcohol.

   For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.

   • 1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use:

     You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.

   • 2005, Frank A. Defilippo, Hooked, page 187:

     Now both sitting, we shoveled into the whorls of the boozy ice cream peach orchard, sweet, tart and cold, filling while it offered the same medicinal stomach coating as a shot glass of Pepto Bismal, only much more to my taste.

   • 2012, Martha Holmberg, Crepes: 50 Savory and Sweet Recipes, page 116:

     Sweetened crème fraîche ties the compote together with the slightly bitter, boozy caramel sauce.

• (intoxicated by alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (inclined to consume alcohol): drunk, sottish
• (involving large consumption of alcohol):
• (containing alcohol): See Thesaurus:alcoholic