drunken

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See also: Drunken

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɹʌŋkən/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌŋkən

Etymology 1

From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink +‎ -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).

Verb

drunken

  1. (archaic, still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten) past participle of drink

Adjective

drunken (comparative more drunken, superlative most drunken)

  1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
    • a. 1830, Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)
      What shall we do with a drunken sailor? / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
    • 2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval‎, Author House, →ISBN, page 389:
      I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well. […]
  2. (derogatory) Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
  3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
    a drunken display of crude exuberance
    • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:
      Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.
  4. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
    1. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
      drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
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Etymology 2

From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.

Verb

drunken (third-person singular simple present drunkens, present participle drunkening, simple past and past participle drunkened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate
    • 1917, Patience Worth, The Sorry Tale, page 153:
      Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
    • 1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31:
      The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
    • 2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31:
      Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption.

Low German

Etymology

From drinken, cognate to English drunken, Dutch dronken.

Adjective

drunken (comparative drunkener, superlative drunkenst)

  1. drunk, drunken

Declension

Positive forms of drunken
gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative he is drunken se is drunken dat is drunken se sünd drunken
partitive een Drunkens een Drunkens wat Drunkens allens Drunken
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative drunken drunken drunken drunken
oblique drunken drunken drunken drunken
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative de drunken de drunken dat drunken de drunken
oblique den drunken de drunken dat drunken de drunken
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative en drunken en drunken en drunken (keen) drunken
oblique en drunken en drunken en drunken (keen) drunken
Comparative forms of drunken
gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative he is drunkener se is drunkener dat is drunkener se sünd drunkener
partitive een drunkeners een drunkeners wat drunkeners allens drunkener
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative drunkenere drunkenere drunkener drunkenere
oblique drunkenere drunkenere drunkener drunkenere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative de drunkenere de drunkenere dat drunkenere de drunkenere
oblique den drunkenern de drunkenere dat drunkenere de drunkenere
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative en drunkenere en drunkenere en drunkener (keen) drunkener
oblique en drunkenern en drunkenere en drunkener (keen) drunkenere
Superlative forms of drunken
gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative he is de Drunkenste se is de Drunkenste dat is dat Drunkenste se sünd de Drunkenstenen
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative drunkenste drunkenste drunkenst drunkenste
oblique drunkensten drunkenste drunkenst drunkenste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative de drunkenste de drunkenste dat drunkenste de drunkensten
oblique den drunkensten de drunkenste dat drunkenste de drunkensten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative en drunkenste en drunkenste en drunkenst (keen) drunkensten
oblique en drunkenste en drunkenste en drunkenst (keen) drunkensten

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