Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
www.theguardian.com Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness
Combine ribald humour with peculiar sentence construction and a genuinely horrifying drinking culture, and what do you get? A dictionary’s worth of ‘drunkonyms’
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I've heard that English has many euphemisms for dying and death, but never heard this.
And if you're posh, you have effectively unlimited choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewe4mlX2tc