If the Eskimo have 40 words for snow, how many have we got for being drunk?

riffmongous

5 words maximum, leave some fun for the others

1. drunk
2. wasted
3. hammered
4. shítfaced
5. gee eyed

Birneybau

5

GBX

Scuttered
Balaboobas
Fúcked

Foweva Awone

Locked
Plastered
Legless

Kermit.de.frog

Possible solution to the housing crisis?

super_furry

Stocious

Star Bingo

Langered
Blottoed

riffmongous

We're up to 14

Scuttered was done twice

Laura_A

Twisted

banie01

Most English Dictionaries have about 3000 synonyms for being drunk, I'd love to take the credit for squirreling out that fact but I must give the credit to that Doyen of Countdown Ms Suzy Dent!

3000.....
Thats mad!!

Mutant z

Pissed
Langered
Smashed
Blathered
Locked
Plastered
Intoxicated

riffmongous

Mutant z wrote: »

Pissed
Langered
Smashed
Blathered
Locked
Plastered
Intoxicated

Intoxicated, that's a nice one

Pyr0

Rubbered
Annihilated
Obliterated
Stocious

riffmongous

banie01 wrote: »

Most English Dictionaries have about 3000 synonyms for being drunk, I'd love to take the credit for squirreling out that fact but I must give the credit to that Doyen of Countdown Ms Suzy Dent!

3000.....
Thats mad!!

And it seems she nicked it from some other guy's book, Intoxerated

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

For a start the premise about Eskimo words for snow is incorrect. There are several languages used by groups collectively known as Eskimo but the Proto-Eskimo language only has three words for snow - snow on the ground, fallen snow and falling snow.
So if by us you mean as English speakers then we are part if the Indo-European language group with over 440 individual languages and must have thousands of words for snow and being drunk.

Generally in English it seems almost any phrase can be used to imply drunkenness. "I was elephants", I was skuttered" "I was laced/stewed/juiced/crocked/sloshed" The list is near endless.

oneilla

The problem with trying to pin down exactly how many Eskimo words there for snow and/or ice — or for anything, for that matter — is that Eskimo is what’s called a “polysynthetic” language, which means you sort of make up words as you go along, by connecting various particles to your basic root word. For example, we may add the suffix -tluk, bad, to kaniktshaq, snow, and come up with kaniktshartluk, bad snow.

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/263/what-are-the-nine-eskimo-words-for-snow/

Iwouldinmesack

Guttered
In the mouldies
In the horrors

riffmongous

ZV Yoda wrote: »

Buckled
Blotto
S-hooked (as in "like an S hook")
3 sheets to the wind

Would Irish people say blotto?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

riffmongous wrote: »

Would Irish people say blotto?

The ones after celebrating a big Polo win might.

riffmongous

oneilla wrote: »

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/263/what-are-the-nine-eskimo-words-for-snow/

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to call that part out as bull****

PlaneSpeeking

Step back, this is all you need!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdenThshf8g

Anyone NOT a techie idiot like me could embed ? Cheers!!!!

hawkwing

Fluthered
Mogalore

KathleenGrant

Ossified
Mouldy

Morpheus

transmoglofied

finno

Buckled

El Weirdo

Bananas.
Washing-machined.

Pintman Paddy Losty

You've drink taken.

riffmongous

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Ossified
Mouldy

Mouldy (pronounced with 'mou' like how) is a personal favourite

Billy86

banie01 wrote: »

Most English Dictionaries have about 3000 synonyms for being drunk, I'd love to take the credit for squirreling out that fact but I must give the credit to that Doyen of Countdown Ms Suzy Dent!

3000.....
Thats mad!!

The bang of elderberries off you...

riffmongous

Demetrius Wet Mannequin wrote: »

For a start the premise about Eskimo words for snow is incorrect. There are several languages used by groups collectively known as Eskimo but the Proto-Eskimo language only has three words for snow - snow on the ground, fallen snow and falling snow.
So if by us you mean as English speakers then we are part if the Indo-European language group with over 440 individual languages and must have thousands of words for snow and being drunk.

Generally in English it seems almost any phrase can be used to imply drunkenness. "I was elephants", I was skuttered" "I was laced/stewed/juiced/crocked/sloshed" The list is near endless.

Ok everyone, we can call off the thread so

fleet_admiral

Gee Eyed

Sky King

I'm surprise some hand wringing leftie hasn't yet come in here to tell us all off for using the term 'eskimo'.

uch

Ar Meisce

recyclebin

Off his tits

ohnonotgmail

Completely brahms

chakotha

Paralytic (my grand uncle used to say "I was paralysed")
Bolloxed

Elmer Blooker

Mickey Monk.

PlaneSpeeking

Anyone weighed in with Uncle Eamon's "tired and emotional, baby. Tired and emotional"

razorblunt

Paraletic.

wexie

Demetrius Wet Mannequin wrote: »

For a start the premise about Eskimo words for snow is incorrect. There are several languages used by groups collectively known as Eskimo but the Proto-Eskimo language only has three words for snow - snow on the ground, fallen snow and falling snow.

Finnish has tonnes though....

https://everything2.com/title/Finnish+words+for+snow

Oh yeah, and one for the thread....(can't believe nobody mentioned this yet) :

inebriated

and one of my personal favourites : I was in a state of advanced refreshment

TheRiverman

Legless.
Stupid.
Canned.
Flutered.

De Bhál

wall falling

Cleopatra_

Snookered
Sh1tfaced
As mo bhosca

7 Seconds...

Loaded

YFlyer

Mangled.

Ten of Swords

Almost any word in the English language is an acceptable descriptor for being drunk... if you're posh (according to Michael McIntyre)

.......

Lamped
Lorried
Mithered out of it

selectamatic

Shteamboats

Warped

DEFTLEFTHAND

Tight as an owl. - often shortened to just 'tight'.

Wombatman

Goat-weaseled
Slaughtered

Lorelli!

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Ossified
Mouldy

Morpheus wrote: »

transmoglofied

Use to know these blokes who would add "ified" to your surname or name if you were locked so if I was, with my username, I'd be "Lorellified"

Other ones "well on" and "fcuked!"