Meanings
comparative more whiskified · superlative most whiskified · alternative whiskeyfied · alternative whiskyfied
- Drunk on whisky.
Fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain.
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, →OCLC2 more examples
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?’
1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 584But Tom — rather, the kids' dad — had passed from her as surely as if he had been tumbled into the grave with the whiskeyfied rancher.
1980, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*wed-
- Proto-Indo-European*wódr̥
- Proto-Celtic*udenskyos
- Old Irishuisce
- Irishuisce
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷih₃wós
- Proto-Celtic*biwos
- Proto-Celtic*biwotūts
- Old Irishbethu
- Irishbeatha
- Medieval Latinaqua vītae
- Irishuisce beatha
- Old Irishuisce
- Scottish Gaelicuisge
- Old Irishbethu
- Scottish Gaelicbeatha
- Medieval Latinaqua vītae
- Scottish Gaelicuisge-beatha
- Englishusquebaugh
- Englishusque
- Englishwhisky
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Italic*θakos
- Englishwhiskified
From whisky + -ify + -ed.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Irish fuisciúil
- fuisciúildrunk on whisky
Cite this entry
whiskified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiskified
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