Sozzled

Word of the Day for Wednesday 1^st January 2013

Sozzled \SOZ-uhld\, adjective:

Slang. drunk; inebriated.

Sometimes Shona drove into town, got some beer and wine, and we lay under the pohutukawa and got sozzled.
-- Albert Wendt, Ola, 1991

What kind of glove could I have told his mother about when we were both sozzled on Sweet Rob Roys in Manila 24 years ago?

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus, 1990

Sozzled is a dialectal word which entered English in the late 1800's meaning "confused state" or "sloppy person."

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