besozzlement

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ sozzle +‎ -ment.

Noun

besozzlement (uncountable)

  1. (UK, informal, rare) A state of intoxication; drunkenness.
    • 1934, Theodora Benson, Chip, Chip, My Little Horse: The Story of an Air-holiday‎[1], page 34:
      One group has reached a quietly maudlin stage of besozzlement.
    • 2011 February 23, Ben Kendall, “Tex Mex II”, in The Journal‎[2], number XLIV, University of Edinburgh, archived from the original on 27 February 2025, page 20:
      Tex Mex II proffers authentically fun Texican fare with an element of theatricality that brightens the face with a smile and the contented glaze of Tequila besozzlement.
    • 2023 May 13, Van Badham, “The culture of mistrust is bleeding into our personal lives. No wonder there’s a sex recession”, in The Guardian‎[3], →ISSN:
      This news of his death, though, has shattered me. The memory that replays itself dates from 19 years ago; we’d stumbled into my apartment to crash after an all-night drunken adventure, and in his besozzlement he found himself unable to remove his contact lenses.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:besozzlement.
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