Dictionary: DRUN – DT

• D-RUNK
adj. 2001 US sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK
adj. 1382 obs. – of a thing: drenched; saturated with as much moisture as it can take in or receive
n. 1. a800 obs. – drink
n. 2. 1779 – a drinking spree
vb. 1. a1375 obs. – to drown
vb. 2. a1382 obs. – to saturate or fill with drink, to drench, to make drunken
 
• DRUNKALOG
n. 1998 US sl. – in twelve-step recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous: a long story recounted at a program meeting, dwelling on the addiction and its manifestations rather than recovery
 
• DRUNKARD
n. 1977 US sl. – a passenger train running late on a Saturday night
 
• DRUNKARDIZE
vb. 1632 obs. – to act like a drunkard
 
• DRUNKARD’S CLOAK
n. 1789 – a tub or barrel with holes for the head and hands fitted on a drunkard like a jacket, as a punishment
 
• DRUNK AS A BESOM
adj. Bk1898 Eng. dial. – entirely drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A BILED OWL
adj. 1848 Amer. dial. – extremely drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A BOILED OWL
adj. 1884 sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A BOWDOW
adj. 1980 Amer. dial. – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A BREWER’S FART
adj. 19C Brit. sl. – drunk and reeking with alcohol
 
• DRUNK AS A BROOM
adj. 19C Brit. sl. – heavily drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A COOT
adj. E20 US sl. – heavily drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A COUPLE OF HOOT-OWLS
adj. 1925 Amer. sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A CUNT
adj. 1984 UK sl. – heavily drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A FIDDLER
adj. 19C sl. – drunk; as drunk as a fiddler who is paid in drink
 
• DRUNK AS A FLY
adj. 19C Brit. sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A FOWL
adj. E20 Aust. sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A LORD
adj. 1796 UK – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A MOUSE
adj. 14C – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS AN EARL
adj. L17 – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A NEWT
adj. 20C Brit. military sl. – heavily drunk; as saturated as the amphibious newt
 
• DRUNK AS AN OWL
adj. 19C sl. – heavily drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A PEACH-ORCHARD BOAR
adj. 1998 Amer. dial. – very drunk, staggering drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A PIPER
adj. L18 Brit. sl. – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A PISS-ANT
adj. 1930 sl., chiefly US – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A RAT
adj. 1553 – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A SKUNK
adj. 1981 sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A THOUSAND DOLLARS
adj. 1989 Can. sl. – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A TINKER
adj. L18 Brit. sl. – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS A YAUL
adj. Bk1905 Sc. – dead drunk
 
• DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW
adj. 1678 Eng. dial. – very much intoxicated 
 
• DRUNK AS CHLOE
adj. 1892 Aust. sl. – very drunk
 
• DRUNK AS COOTER BROWN
adj. 1953 US sl. – very drunk
 
• DRUNKATHON
n. 2003 UK sl. – a session of excessive drinking
 
• DRUNK BUMPS
n. 1992 US sl. – small bumps delineating lanes on motorways and roads
 
• DRUNKELEC
n. c1450 obs. rare – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKELEW;  DRUNKLEW
adj. 1362 obs. – given to drunkenness, drunk
n. c1430 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKELEWNESS
n. a1387 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKEN
adj. 1. c1420 – soaked or saturated with moisture
adj. 2. 1977 US sl. – of a wink in tiddlywinks: behaving unpredictably
n. c950 obs. – drunkenness, intoxication
vb. 1. c950 obs. – to become swallowed up or sunk in water; to suffer drowning, to be drowned
vb. 2. c1000 obs. – to drink to excess, to become drunk
vb. 3. a1300 obs. – to drench, to saturate or soak with liquid
 
• DRUNKEN FOREST
n. 1957 Can. – in the permafrost area of northern Canada: trees tilted in many directions by natural forces and not held by their shallow root systems
 
• DRUNKENHEAD
n. a1300 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKENSHIP
n. c1440 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKENSOME
adj. a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – addicted to drunkenness
 
• DRUNKEN-WORT
n. 1617 obs. – tobacco
 
• DRUNKER
n. a1538 obs. – a drunkard
 
• DRUNKER THAN A BOILED OWL
adj. 1967 Amer. dial. – extremely drunk
 
• DRUNKER THAN A HOOT OWL
adj. 1968 Amer. sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNKER THAN A SCREECH OWL
adj. 1968 Amer. sl. – drunk
 
• DRUNKERY
n. 1836 – a place to get drunk in; a term of contempt for a public-house or drink-shop
 
• DRUNKHEAD
n. 1340 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKIE
n. 1861 UK sl. – an alcoholic
 
• DRUNKIFY
vb. 1664 – to make drunk or intoxicated
 
• DRUNKNESS
n. c1160 obs. – drunkenness
 
• DRUNKOMETER
n. 1934 US sl. – any device used to measure a motorist’s blood alcohol content
 
• DRUNKSHIP
n. 1. 1393 obs. – drunkenness
n. 2. 1486 obs. – a drunken company, as a ‘drunkship of cobblers’
 
• DRUNKSOME
adj. c1475 obs. – addicted to drunkenness
 
• DRUNK TANK
n. 1912 US sl. – a cell in a police station in which drunks are held
 
• DRUNK WAGON
n. 1970 US sl. – a police van used for rounding up public drunks
 
• DRUNK-WORT
n. 1617 obs. – tobacco
 
• DRUNKY
adj. 1863 Eng. dial. – somewhat drunk
 
• DRUT
n. a1240 obs. – darling, love, friend
 
• DRUTHERS
n. 1870 US sl. – a preference
 
• DRUTTLE
n. 19C Sc. – a useless, good-for-nothing person
vb. 1. 19C Sc. – to be slow in motion, to make little progress in walking
vb. 2. 19C Sc. – to dawdle, to waste time, to trifle
 
• DRUXY
adj. 1589 – of timber: having decayed spots concealed by healthy wood
 
• DRY
adj. 1. 1406 – thirsty 
adj. 2. 1552 obs. – miserly, stingy; reserved, uncommunicative
adj. 3. 1574 – of money, rent, or fees: paid in hard cash, in actual coin
adj. 4. 1618 obs. – not accompanied with bloodshed
n. 1. 1377 obs. – thirst
n. 2. 1888 colloq., orig. US – someone who opposes the sale and consumption of alcohol; a prohibitionist
n. 3. 1909 Aust. – a desert area; waterless country
n. 4. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – bread and water
n. 5. 1983 Brit. sl., derogatory – a Conservative politician who advocates individual responsibility, free trade, and economic stringency, and opposes high government spending
vb. 1362 obs. – to be thirsty, to thirst
 
• DRYAD
n. 1823 – a forest-tree, a denizen of the woods
 
• DRY AS A HAKE
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – very thirsty
 
• DRY AS A KECK
adj. 1896 Eng. dial. – very dry
 
• DRY AS A NUN’S FANNY
adj. 20C Brit. sl. – very dry
 
• DRY AS A NUN’S MINGE
adj. 20C Brit. sl. – very dry
 
• DRYASDUST
adj. 1. 1872 – extremely ‘dry’, as a writer, book, or subject of study
adj. 2. 1889 – (usually as ”dry-as-dust’) of climate: extremely dry or rainless
n. 1819 – the name of a fictitious person to whom Sir Walter Scott pretends to dedicate some of his novels; hence, a writer or student of antiquities, history, or statistics, who occupies himself with the driest and most uninteresting details
 
• DRY BACK OF THE EARS
adj. 1914 Amer. sl. – experienced, mature
 
• DRYBALL
n. Bk1942 Amer. college sl. – a diligent student
 
• DRY-BANG
vb. a1640 obs. – to inflict ‘dry blows’ upon; to beat soundly or severely
 
• DRY-BASTE
vb. 1630 obs. – to inflict ‘dry blows’ upon; to beat soundly or severely
 
• DRY BATH
n. 1933 sl. – a search of a prisoner who has been stripped naked
 
• DRY-BEARD
n. 1749 – an old man with a dry or withered beard
 
• DRY-BEAT
vb. 1589 obs. – to inflict ‘dry blows’ upon; to beat soundly or severely
 
• DRY BEHIND THE EARS
adj. 1911 Amer. sl. – experienced; mature
 
• DRY-BLOWER
n. 1. 1895 Aust. – a term of abuse
n. 2. 1935 Aust. – a gold-miner
 
• DRY-BOB
n. 1865 – a boy at Eton who devotes himself to land sports, as cricket, football, etc.
 
• DRY-BONES
n. 1845 – a thin or withered person, who has little flesh on his bones
 
• DRY BRAIN
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a barren mind
 
• DRY-COOPER
n. 1715 – a cooper who makes casks, etc. for dry goods
 
• DRY-DEES
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – diapers
 
• DRY DOCK
n. World War II Amer. sl. – a ship’s hospital or jail
 
• DRY DOWN
vb. 1958 – of paint: to become dry
 
• DRY FARMER
n. Bk1942 Amer. Western sl. – a term of contempt
 
• DRYFAT
n. 1526 obs. – a large cask, barrel, tub, box, etc., used to hold dry things, as opposed to liquids
 
► DRY-FIST n. 1. a miserly, niggardly, stingy or parsimonious person → 1633 obs.
n. 2. an elderly, withered woman → 1883 contemptuous usage (Bk.)
 
• DRY-FISTED
adj. 1604 obs. – niggardly, miserly, stingy
 
• DRY FUCK
n. 1938 US sl. – a simulated act of sexual intercourse, without penetration, or to an unsatisfactory or anticlimactic act of intercourse
 
• DRY GOODS
n. 20C US colloq. – a woman; a woman considered sexually
 
• DRY GROG
n. E20 US criminals’ sl. – narcotics; a nonalcoholic source of a ‘high’
 
• DRY-HASH
n. 1. Bk1892 Aust. sl. – a man who will not ‘shout’, i.e. pay for drinks
n. 2. Bk1892 Aust. sl. – a miser; also, a loafer
 
• DRYHEAD
n. a1300 obs. – dryness, drought; a dry place, desert
 
• DRY HIGH
n. M20 US drug culture sl. – marijuana; a nonalcoholic source of a ‘high’
 
• DRY HOLE
n. 1. E20 US sl. – a cold and unresponsive woman
n. 2. Bk1942 Amer. college sl. – a diligent student
 
• DRY HOUSE
n. 1884 – a building in which miners change their clothing
 
• DRY HUMP
n. M20 US sl. – an act of coition without copulation
 
• DRY-LAND SUCKER
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a gullible person; a dupe
 
• DRY LODGING
n. 1825 – lodging without board
 
• DRY MARTINI
n. 2002 Brit. sl. – the left hand
 
• DRYNESS
n. 1. a1398 obs. rare – a dry place; dry land
n. 2. c1450 – absence of emotion, feeling or fervour; coldness of feeling; distance of manner
n. 3. a1535 obs. – thirst
n. 4. 1625 obs. – a being dried up; failure, cessation
n. 5. 1910 – a being without alcohol; prohibition
 
• DRY-NURSE
n. 1. a1616 – a woman who takes care of and attends to a child, but does not suckle it (opposed to ‘wet nurse’)’ formerly, also used in the general sense of ‘nurse’
n. 2. 1631 – a man who is charged with ‘looking after’ another’; one who instructs or coaches a superior in his duties
vb. 1. 1581 – to bring up ‘by hand’, without the breast
vb. 2. 1663 – to instruct or coach (a superior) in his duties
 
• DRY OUT
vb. 1. 1908 sl., orig. US – of a drug addict: to undergo treatment to cure addiction
vb. 2. 1908 sl., orig. US – of an alcoholic: to undergo treatment to cure addiction
 
• DRYPERS
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – diapers
 
• DRY ROOM
n. Bk1891 sl. – a prison
 
• DRY ROT
n. 1821 – a state of hidden or unsuspected moral or social decay tending to disintegration
 
• DRY RUN
n. 20C US sl. – coition with a condom
 
• DRYSALTER
n. 1707 – a dealer in chemical products used in the arts, drugs, dye-stuffs, gums, etc.; sometimes also in oils, sauces, pickles, tinned meats, etc.
 
• DRY SEAMAN
n. US Civil War usage – a sailor
 
• DRY-SHAVE
vb. 1620 – to cheat notoriously
 
• DRYSIDES
n. 1. 19C Eng. dial. – a witty, humorous man
n. 2. 19C Eng. dial. – a grasping, miserly fellow
 
• DRYSNE
vb. c950 obs. – to fall down, to sink
 
• DRY STRAIGHT
vb. 1897 colloq. – to come right eventually
 
• DRYTH
n. 1. a1533 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – dryness, dry condition
n. 2. 1557 obs. – thirst
n. 3. 1571 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – dry weather, drought
 
• DRY UP!
int. 1853 sl. – be quiet
 
• D.T. 
n. 1. 1858 sl. – delirium tremens
n. 2. M20 US sl. – a dick-teaser; a woman who leads a man on sexually but who refuses to permit copulation
 
• D-TIST
n. 19C Brit. sl.-  a drunkard
 
• D.Ts
n. 1858 Brit. – the delirium tremens