Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Drunk; intoxicated.
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- adjective UK, slang Very
drunk .
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- adjective very drunk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I don't know about "sozzled" ... perhaps that's British English.
The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day 2010
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Bunny "sozzled" the basket of clams in the water to wash them, and when
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove Laura Lee Hope
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Hitchens was apparently often a bully, empowered by his endless certainties useful for a pundit always on call, his indisputable verbal gifts and booze, and he often hammered out his pieces, as Katha Pollitt in The Nation laments, "when sozzled."
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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Hitchens was apparently often a bully, empowered by his endless certainties useful for a pundit always on call, his indisputable verbal gifts and booze, and he often hammered out his pieces, as Katha Pollitt in The Nation laments, "when sozzled."
Robert Teitelman: Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer Robert Teitelman 2011
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“I picked up some fresh sausage, Darren!” he calls out to the sozzled but effective Brit.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
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At Lord's I kept thinking how strange it must feel for Sri Lanka, playing a game that draws empty seats back home, but here in London's Greatest Beer Garden inspires a full house of the often insensible, the beer-goggled, the bladder-swollen, the game's faithful backbone lolling dutifully in their high-priced seats, all doing their bit for English cricket's new economy of the sozzled.
Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011
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Drinking in the sozzled aftermath of the intoxicating wrestle with Ghana, there were reasons to savour the morning after.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay 2011
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As anyone who has been swept out of the racecourse's gates on the tsunami of upbeat, sozzled Scouse humanity that marks the close of Ladies' Day will attest, it makes your average, drink-sodden Cheltenham Festival look like a four-day meeting of the Temperance Society.
Raucous Grand National celebration misses only the winner Ballabriggs 2011
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“I picked up some fresh sausage, Darren!” he calls out to the sozzled but effective Brit.
Filth and Splendor: A Love Story Marshall Moore 2011
vendingmachine commented on the word sozzled
See sloe. "Sozzled journalists had often been known to indulge when officebound without much happening for them to report. Hence the expression'sloe news day'. -https://www.wordnik.com/users/bilby
June 17, 2015