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ˈpunch-drunk, a. and n. orig. U.S.
[f. punch n.2 + drunk ppl. a. and n.2]
A. adj. Of a boxer or one involved in physical fighting: dazed or stupefied from severe or continual punching; spec. exhibiting reduced muscular co-ordination, hesitant speech, slowness of thought, and other signs. Also fig.
1918Sat. Even. Post 18 May 12/3 He was in the condition so aptly described as ‘punch drunk’. 1927Daily Express 29 July 1, I replied that in my opinion Moore was ‘punch-drunk’, that is to say that he had taken so much punishment that he could no longer feel it, and his nerves were practically gone. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 2 Mar. 12/7, I am delegated to remind all who may be punch-drunk with winter that the famous Blizzard of Eighty-eight occurred on March 12. 1937Daily Mirror 2 Mar. 12/4 Nowadays the Kid is punch-drunk. His limbs tremble and quiver like a man stricken with ague. His voice is so slurred that one cannot properly understand what he is saying. 1947Penguin New Writing XXX. 126 A film which has been praised by critics who should certainly know better, unless they have themselves become punch-drunk with watching the hallucinated antics of the slap-happy puppets on the screen. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid v. 105 So he called an end to the bout, saving the punch-drunk Dares From further punishment. 1954J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday 215 Doc's setting over there like he's punch-drunk. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 497/3 In this punch-drunk civilization it is perverse to expect me to take seriously the horse itself, or indeed Mr. Kirkup's gracious swan, or Mr. Trypanis's seasick cock. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 21, I seem to have turned into a slightly punch-drunk and ugly club fighter. 1974‘A. Garve’ File on Lester xxxvi. 129 The papers are terrible this morning... I'm feeling punch drunk and hardly capable of rational thought. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) i. i. 31 You and me know he's so..punch-drunk he'd do anything anybody told him.
B. n. One who is punch-drunk (usu. in literal use).
In quot. 1928 used as the name of the condition.
1928Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Oct. 1103/1 The early symptoms of punch drunk usually appear in the extremities. 1943Gen 16 Jan. 30/2 Your out-and-out punch-drunk is harmless rather than homicidal. 1966‘A. Hall’ Ninth Directive viii. 78 He spoke with the dulled tone of a punch-drunk. 1969Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 18 ‘Punch-drunks’ are completely unknown in amateur boxing.
Hence ˈpunch-drunkenness, the condition of being punch-drunk.
1937Lit. Digest 10 Apr. 40/1 The coincidence of boxers developing thickness of speech, unsteadiness of gait,..has prompted London's famed Guy's Hospital to initiate a special study of the cause and cure of punch drunkenness. 1939J. Berryman in Astounding Sci. Fiction May 51 Tiny bloodclots on the lining of the brain, whose pressure on delicate centers often caused them to manifest the symptoms of punch-drunkenness. 1941Lancet 14 June 759/1 There is, however, that specific problem of boxing, ‘punchdrunkenness’—the permanent damage due to repeated cerebral injury. 1959Daily Tel. 27 June 7/5 There was ‘plenty of evidence to show that punch-drunkenness is a very real hazard to boxers’. 1977J. Porter Who the Heck is Sylvia? xv. 144 A family which prided itself on never knowing when it was beaten and in which punch-drunkenness was practically an endemic disease. |