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English
Etymology
Although skunk might refer to the aroma of some alcoholic beverage, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.
Pronunciation
Adjective
drunk as a skunk
- (simile, colloquial) Highly inebriated.
Usage notes
- This term follows the common pattern of omitting the first "as" of the full form "as drunk as a skunk".
Synonyms
- drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as an owl, drunk as Chloe, drunk as David's sow, full as a goog, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt, tight as a tick; see also Thesaurus:drunk
Translations
Translations
- Danish: fuld som en allike
- Finnish: kännissä kuin käki, umpikännissä
- French: bourré comme un coing (fr), plein comme une huître (fr), plein comme un œuf (fr)
- Galician: borracho como unha cuba
- Polish: pijany jak świnia (pl), pijany jak bela (pl), zalany w trupa, nawalony jak Messerschmitt, pijany w pień, pijany jak szewc, nawalony jak stodoła, nawalony jak autobus
- Portuguese: bêbado como um gambá (pt)
- Sicilian: mmriacu comu na signa
- Spanish: como una cuba, borracho como una cuba
- Swedish: full som en alika (sv), full som en kastrull
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