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whiskified

whiskified

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whiskified (comparative more whiskified, superlative most whiskified)

  1. Prone to drinking too much whisky.
    • 1848, WM Thackeray, Pendennis:
      Fact and fiction reeled together in his muzzy, whiskified brain.
    • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 584:
      Of the various types of field-officer upon whom he could have modelled himself as regards the men, he had chosen that of the genial, rubicund, slightly whiskyfied C.O. who finishes every sentence with the words: ‘Eh, what?’
    • 1980, Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
      But Tom rather, the kids' dad had passed from her as surely as if he had been tumbled into the grave with the whiskeyfied rancher.