different between drunk vs pixilated

English

Etymology

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ?edruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkan? (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/, /d?????k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Adjective

drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)

1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:

     So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.

2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

   Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (habitually of frequently intoxicated from alcohol): boozy, sottish
• (saturated with moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
• (slightly intoxicated):

tipsy, buzzed

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

drunk (plural drunks)

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

3. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:

     Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

4. A drunken state.
   • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

     Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drunk

1. past participle of drink
2. (Southern US) simple past tense of drink

Anagrams

• Knurd, knurd

English

Etymology

From pixie, with ending as in titillated.

Adjective

pixilated (comparative more pixilated, superlative most pixilated)

1. behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.

   • Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilated.

     Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated. […]

     Board member: Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated" is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy".

2. whimsical
3. drunk

Usage notes

• Do not confuse pixilated with pixelated.

Synonyms

• (eccentric): abnormal, eccentric, eccentrical, excentrical, odd
• (whimsical): idiosyncratic, outlandish, peculiar, playful, quirky, unconventional
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk