stocious

comparative more stocious · superlative most stocious · alternative stotious · alternative stoshious · alternative stotius · alternative stocius · alternative stoshus · alternative stoshous · alternative stoshius · alternative stoatious · alternative stoshers

1. IrelandScotlandslangvery drunk, intoxicated

   Asked by the committee chairman, Mr Batt O'Keeffe, why young people were going out at night "to get absolutely stocious drunk", he suggested young people were influenced by what they saw around them, including the excesses of adults.

   2003 January 24, Eithne Donnellan, “A&E doctors to be asked about young drinkers in hospitals”, in The Irish Times

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   By contrast they have a whole flock of words to discriminate the various degrees of intoxication. Beginning with the delightful “Drink-taken,” you have half-towed, sizzled, flukaw, flutered, spifflu, langers, and stocious. The last word rhymes with atrocious and means thickly speaking drunk. Anybody who is stocious ought to be taken home before he starts fighting—unless he is already past it, which he probably is.

   1949, Charles Graves, Ireland Revisited, page 20

   Synonyms: drunk