† drunkensomeadj.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Addicted to drunkenness.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking
drunkensomea1300
drunkelew1362
drunksomec1475
drunken1548
boozing1569
boozy1592
bousy1592
moisty1593
unsober1611
upsy-friesy1617
moist1619
sottish1632
swilling1633
bibacious1663
intemperate1680
swill-bellied1680
swill-down1693
wet1699
potative1737
compotatory1817
alcoholic1845
drinking1856
bibulous1861
on the drink1865
a1300 Cursor Mundi 26188 Brath, and drunkensum, and skald.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 54 Drunkunsum men, vsurers, and who euer is contrari to þe doctrin, and to þe word of God, he is anticrist.
1567 Stat. Trin. Coll. Edinb. 249 in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. (1753) ii. 211 Gif ony of the Beidmen be drunkinsome.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Drucken Druckensum, habituated to the use of intoxicating liquors.
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