Thesaurus talk:drunk

Should the "Other" section have a more meaningful name like "Formal euphamisms"? --Connel MacKenzie 22:23, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Spanceled up qualifiers

Why are such frivolous terms as "tippled" or "twisted" listed with a (taboo) qualifier, but "fucked" is not? Also, is "spanceled" really a (taboo) word, and does it actually exist? It looks fishy. Is there a source? Why is "pissed" listed twice, once as (taboo) and once as Queen's English, and what is the difference between (UK) and (British) as a qualifier? Why is "withered" (taboo), but "retarded" OK? Just asking. Freederick 15:35, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

• Good questions. I see one or two have been fixed. I see no reason why "spanceled" should be taboo - it just means "hobbled", see spancel, so I've fixed it. D A Patriarche (talk) 21:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Tipple is certainly not obscene ... it rhymes with nipple, sure, but that's a pretty tenuous connection. A lot of times, issues like this are because people copypaste entries to other entries, but, I'd think they'd at least notice a separate template. —Soap— 02:28, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Statistics

Is it true that there are more synonyms for "drunk" than any other word in English? What about other languages -- with all due respect to my Suomi friends, Finnish should have plenty!

Does anybody read these Discussion pages? Doesn't really matter, I just like to natter!D A Patriarche (talk) 21:39, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

It's been claimed in the Guinness Book of World Records for English, yes. It wouldnt surprise me if it were true in many other languages as well. I think part of what helps is that it's so often clear from context, so in some cases, almost any word can work, and if enough people like one particular person's choice of words, it can spread. But we have to draw the line somewhere. To use an example from the now-deleted appendix page, someone once added xylophoned as a synonym for drunk, and perhaps they actually used it among a small circle of friends, but anyone outside that small social group would be liable to be misunderstood, and perhaps laughed at, if they said something like "I'm so xylophoned right now!" We don't want to mislead people, and there are other places to put made-up content like this, so we decided to get rid of the essentially un-curated appendix page. —Soap— 08:38, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Thoughts on merging this page

I wonder if we should merge this page with Appendix:Glossary of drinking slang, which seems to get much less attention than this one. It might be best to remove that page altogether, but I'm not sure how we would go about that. The difference seems to be .... the items on that page don't need to be linked, but on this page they do. That may mean this page is of a better quality than the other. Still, probably at least a few entries on the other list could be added to this one. —Soap— 13:55, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

"Three bottles deep"

One phrase I dont see on either page is the expression of the form "(number) (container) deep". I use it myself and heard someone last night say "six tallboys deep" or perhaps "six tallyboys under", so its not just something I made up. But it's difficult to list that on this page since it seems at least two of the three words belong to an open class, and the third is potentially variable as well. —Soap— 13:55, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Cleanup needed

A good third to half of the "base" synonyms here actually describe degrees of drunkness (generally extremely drunk) and need to be ported to the hyponym list. — LlywelynII 23:02, 2 March 2022 (UTC)