different between drunk vs toper

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 tope +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?to?p?/
• Rhymes: -??p?(?)

Noun

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, “On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness”:

     A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]

Translations

Anagrams

• -trope, Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, trope

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from top +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.pe/

Verb

toper

1. to high five

Conjugation

Further reading

• “toper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From English tope + -er.

Verb

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope