whiskified

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adjective

Drunk on whisky.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectivewhiskified (comparative more whiskified, superlative most whiskified)

comparative more whiskified · superlative most whiskified · alternative whiskeyfied · alternative whiskyfied

  1. 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, →OCLC
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    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 584

    But 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wed-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wódr̥
  3. Proto-Celtic*udenskyos
  4. Old Irishuisce
  5. Irishuisce
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*gʷih₃wós
  8. Proto-Celtic*biwos
  9. Proto-Celtic*biwotūts
  10. Old Irishbethu
  11. Irishbeatha
  12. Medieval Latinaqua vītae
  13. Irishuisce beatha
  14. Old Irishuisce
  15. Scottish Gaelicuisge
  16. Old Irishbethu
  17. Scottish Gaelicbeatha
  18. Medieval Latinaqua vītae
  19. Scottish Gaelicuisge-beatha
  20. Englishusquebaugh
  21. Englishusque
  22. Englishwhisky
  23. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  24. Proto-Italic*θakos
  25. Englishwhiskified

From whisky + -ify + -ed.

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Translations

Irish fuisciúil
  • fuisciúildrunk on whisky
Cite this entry
APA

whiskified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiskified

MLA

“whiskified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiskified. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whiskified,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiskified.

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