whiskified

English

Alternative forms

• whiskeyfied, whiskyfied

Etymology

From whisky +‎ -ify +‎ -ed.

Adjective

whiskified (comparative more whiskified, superlative most whiskified)

1. Drunk on whisky.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain.

   • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 584:

     Of the various types of field-officer upon whom he could have modelled himself as regards the men, he had chosen that of the genial, rubicund, slightly whiskyfied C.O. who finishes every sentence with the words: ‘Eh, what?’

   • 1980, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky:

     But Tom — rather, the kids' dad — had passed from her as surely as if he had been tumbled into the grave with the whiskeyfied rancher.

Translations

drunk on whisky

• Irish: fuisciúil