adj, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated. informal, rare

   "‘[…] How did it happen at all?’ ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely."

Synonyms

All synonyms

a sheet in the winda sheet in the wind's eyeadrian quistadripaled upall mops and brooms

Example

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"‘[…] How did it happen at all?’ ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely."

Etymology

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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