As you know, we love words here at Lucindaville.
There is that old joke about Eskimos having 100's of words for snow. That is just a myth. Most linguists will tell you that this is not true. It probably comes for the multitude of Inuit/Innu dialects which have about as many words for snow as English does. Spread those words over multiple dialects and there are quite a few.
If there are not thousands of words for snow, then what word, you might just ask yourself, has the most synonyms. (Yes, this is the kind of subject that occupies our mind.) And the winner is...
DRUNK
There are, according to Paul Dickson, who wrote the book, or perhaps the dictionary, on Drunk...
2,964
synonyms for drunk. Counting synonyms is a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Here are 26 that we just love...
Here are 26 that we just love...
Alight
Bazooka'd
Caked
Dipped
Etched
Fluffy
Gatted
Heroic
Inked
Joplined
Kippered
Lordy
Mawlin
Nished
Oscillated
Pied
Quilted
Ratty
Scoobied
Temulent
Unsensed
Vulcanized
Whipcat
X Filed
Yoimashita
Zippin
Bazooka'd
CakedDipped
Etched
Fluffy
GattedHeroic
Inked
Joplined
Kippered
Lordy
Mawlin
Nished
Oscillated
Pied
Quilted
Ratty
Scoobied
Temulent
Unsensed
Vulcanized
WhipcatX Filed
Yoimashita
Zippin
Let's go get fluffy.
I prefer arf arf an arf, but I suppose that is really really drunk. It s a real word too. I found it in the Word Lover Dictionary, years ago.
ReplyDeleteToo funny. Mom used to say 'tight' or 'three sheets to the wind'. Over here in Britain, they say 'pissed'.
ReplyDeleteI've always heard the Irish have loads of words for rain...