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单词 punch-drunk
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punch-drunkadj.n.

Brit. /ˈpʌn(t)ʃdrʌŋk/, /ˌpʌn(t)ʃˈdrʌŋk/, U.S. /ˈpən(t)ʃˌdrəŋk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: punch n.2, drunk adj.
Etymology: < punch n.2 + drunk adj.
Originally U.S.
A. adj.
1. Originally (of a boxer): dazed or stupefied from taking punches to the head. Later also: (Medicine) designating a neurological syndrome characterized by weakness of the legs and unsteadiness of gait, tremor, impaired speech, and slowness of thinking, seen chiefly in boxers (often after retirement) and attributed to repeated head injury; suffering from this syndrome.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [adjective] > attributes of boxer
muffled1721
lightweight1823
punch-drunk1911
punchless1913
southpaw1914
light welter1950
1911 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 28 Dec. 3/3 At the finish he had Kennedy punch drunk and Tom's face was masked with blood.
1912 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 29 June Punch-drunk through the first round, and floundering around like a great helpless calf, his mouth and nose shedding blood in a thick stream.
1937 Daily 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.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 80 708/2 Permanent sequelae comparable to those of the ‘punch drunk’ syndrome.
1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) i. i. 31 You and me know he's so..punch-drunk he'd do anything anybody told him.
1996 New Scientist 20 Jan. 4/2 Geddes thinks she may have found the earliest stage in a process that eventually leads to the extensive damage seen in punch-drunk boxers.
2004 Curr. Sports Med. Rep. 3 9 For soccer, there has been some concern that heading may be associated with the development of cumulative traumatic brain encephalopathy, or the ‘punch drunk’ syndrome described in boxers.
2. Behaving as if punch-drunk; confused, stupefied.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > stupefied
astonedc1300
astonieda1375
obstupefacta1538
moidered1587
dunt1787
stupefied1790
moidering1839
punch-drunk1922
1922 Richmond (Indiana) Palladium & Sun-Telegram 4 Dec. 11/4 Now New York is becoming a bit punch drunk itself.
1925 Amer. Mercury Mar. 258/1 The tattered standard is thrust into the broken hands of a punchdrunk politician.
1934 Sun (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.
1958 Times 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.
2003 New Yorker 4 Aug. 43/2 A couple of punch-drunk wasps knocked against the window inside, trying to get out.
B. n.
1. Medicine. The punch-drunk syndrome. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders
brain damage1864
mind-blindness1888
satellitosis1906
syringobulbia1908
Alzheimer's disease1911
kernicterus1912
pseudotumour1914
brain death1928
punch-drunk1928
Sturge–Weber syndrome1935
Alzheimer1938
Creutzfeldt–Jakob1939
Alzheimer1940
Schilder's disease1940
hypsarrhythmia1952
kuru1957
laughing death1957
Minamata disease1957
myelinolysis1959
spongiform encephalopathy1960
CJD1975
old-timer's disease1983
mad —— disease1990
1928 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 24 Apr. 4/5 He is suffering from what is known as the ‘boxer's waltz’ or ‘punch drunk’.
1928 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Oct. 1103/1 The early symptoms of punch drunk usually appear in the extremities.
1950 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 2 222/1 In the literature, it was pointed out that the syndrome of ‘punch-drunk’ was due to punctate hemorrhages in the basal ganglia.
2012 C. A. Noggle et al. Encycl. Neuropsycholog. Disorders 258/2 Dementia pugilistica,..also referred to as chronic traumatic encephalopathy,..chronic traumatic brain injury,..and ‘punch drunk’.
2. A punch-drunk person.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mental prostration or paralysis > person
punchy1932
punch-drunk1934
slappy1937
1934 Jasper (Indiana) Herald 14 Sept. 5/1 (advt.) Gem Theatre... Thursday, Sept. 20. ‘The Party is Over’ with Stuart Erwin and Ann Sothern. Shorts ‘Punch Drunks’ and ‘By Persons Unknown’. Show 7.45 P. M.
1943 Gen 16 Jan. 30/2 Your out-and-out punch-drunk is harmless rather than homicidal.
1969 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 18Punch-drunks’ are completely unknown in amateur boxing.
2006 Washington Post 9 Feb. e1 He's an impossibly affected, egotistical blowfish, with a baleful stare and a surly, punch-drunk's face.

Derivatives

ˌpunch-ˈdrunkenness n. the condition of being punch-drunk; the punch-drunk syndrome.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > mental prostration or paralysis
amazec1425
amazedness?1520
amazement1553
astonishment1611
mopedness1660
anergia1874
anergy1890
punch-drunkenness1928
slug-nuttiness1943
1928 Atlanta Constit. 16 Nov. 16/7 The boxing world, jarred somewhat by a scientific left hook, is still echoing the effects of medical research into the condition commonly known as ‘punch-drunkenness’.
1939 J. 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.
1941 Lancet 14 June 759/1 There is, however, that specific problem of boxing, ‘punchdrunkenness’—the permanent damage due to repeated cerebral injury.
1989 G. Early Tuxedo Junction iii. vi. 145 Before television the world of boxing was one of..severe punch-drunkenness, down-and-out fighters without two nickels to rub together.
2012 N. Carter Med., Sport & Body viii. 181 During the thirties a greater awareness emerged of boxing's long-term medical consequences in the form of punch-drunkenness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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