Thesaurus:drunkard
English
Noun
Sense: person who is habitually drunk
Synonyms
- alco (slang, Australia)
- alcoholic [⇒ thesaurus]
- alkie (informal)
- bacchanal
- bacchant
- barfly (slang)
- bibber
- booze artist (slang, Australia)
- boozehound (slang)
- boozer (slang)
- borachio
- bouser (obsolete)
- carouser
- cupster (rare)
- dipso (informal)
- dipsomaniac
- drinker
- drunk [⇒ thesaurus]
- drunkard
- fuddlecap (obsolete)
- fuddler (archaic)
- grog artist (slang, Australia)
- guzzler
- inebriate
- juicehead (slang)
- lick-wimble (obsolete)
- lush (pejorative)
- lusher
- maltworm
- pisshead (pejorative)
- pisspot (Australia, pejorative)
- plonko
- reel-pot (obsolete)
- rinse-pitcher (obsolete)
- rumpot
- shicker
- slubberdegullion
- soak (slang, UK)
- soaker
- sot (pejorative)
- souse (pejorative)
- sponge (informal)
- squeeze-grape (obsolete)
- sucker (archaic, slang)
- suck-pint (obsolete)
- swill-belly (obsolete)
- swill-bowl (obsolete)
- swill-flagon (obsolete)
- swill-pot (obsolete)
- swill-tub (obsolete)
- swillking (UK, slang)
- tippler
- toper
- tosspot
- tun (archaic, humorous or derogatory)
- winebibber
- winesop
- wino
Archetypes
- Cootie Brown (US)
- Cooter Brown (US)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- rubby-dub
- vodkaholic (rare)
Hypernyms
Cohyponyms
Translations
- See drunk
- Estonian: Thesaurus:joodik
- Finnish: Thesaurus:juoppo
- Spanish: Thesaurus:borracho
See also
- Thesaurus:alcohol
- Thesaurus:alcoholic
- Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
- Thesaurus:drunk
- Thesaurus:drunkenness
Further reading
- “959. drunkenness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “drunkard” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- drinker, drunkard, inebriate, boozer, dipsomaniac at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.