Meanings
- informalrareDrunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
If you're peloothered then you're very, very drunk.
2015 March 17, Paul Anthony Jones, “17 Words Invented By James Joyce”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 29 Sep 20152 more examples
‘[…] How did it happen at all?’ ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.
1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 197By this time Jimmy was working himself into such a state—he'd already told me “I'm peloothered, lurve, bleeding peloothered”—that I felt he'd be unable to proceed.
1988, Frederick Exley, Last Notes from Home, →ISBNSynonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveDrunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
Origin
Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Possibly from Hiberno-English as a humorous dialectal corruption of blootered or polluted.
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