As Tell’s an Irishman, I’ve been researching Irish slang terms and came across more than a few for … well, having a few. It’s like the Inuit are supposed to have 100 different words for snow. Here are 133 terms for being the worse for drink.
- Ar meise
- Baloobas
- Bananas
- Banjo’ed
- Battered
- Binned
- Blathered or Blethered
- Blind
- Blocked
- Blotto
- Bogmheisce
- Bolloxed or Bollocksed
- Boogalooed
- Buckled
- Cabbaged
- Car-parked
- Cartwheeled
- Cock-eyed
- Composted
- C*nted (only to be used in direst situations)
- Deargmheisce
- Demented
- Destroyed
- Fecked
- Fermented
- Flaming
- Fluthered
- Frazzled
- F*cked
- Full
- Galvinised (from the name of an off-license in Cork)
- Gargled
- Gazebo’ed
- Gee-eyed
- Gelled
- Gone
- Goosed
- Gootered (must be said in inner-city Dublin accent)
- Half-cut
- Hammered
- Horrendified
- In a bad way
- In a hayp or in a hoop
- In a jock
- In bits
- In rag order
- In ribbons
- In shite
- In tatters
- Inebriated
- Intoxicated
- Jarred
- Kebab’ed
- Lamped
- Langered
- Langers
- Lashed
- Legless
- Loaded
- Malafoostered
- Mangled
- Merry
- Messy
- Monkied
- Mouldy
- Mullered
- Off my face
- Off my tits
- Off my trolly
- Ossified
- Out of it
- Out of my head
- Out of my mind
- Out of my tree
- Over refreshed
- Pansed
- Paralytic
- Pickled
- Pissed
- Plastered
- Polatic
- Polaxed
- Poled
- Polluted
- Postered
- Pyjama’ed
- Rat-arsed
- Reactive
- Roasted
- Rotten or Rotted
- Rubbered
- Ruined
- Salubrious
- Sauced
- Schindler’s (as in List = Pissed)
- Scuttered
- Shit-faced or Shittered
- Sideways
- Slaughtered
- Sloppy
- Sloshed
- Sluthered
- Smashed
- Snattered
- Snookered
- Soused
- Spaced
- Spangled
- Spannered
- Steam or Steaming or Steamboats
- Stocious
- Sugach
- Tanked up
- Tipsy
- Tit-faced
- Toasted
- Trashed
- Trenched
- Trina cheile
- Trollied
- Trousered
- Transmoglified
- Twisted or Twistified
- Two (or three) sheets to the wind
- Wankered
- Warped
- Wasted
- Well lubricated
- Well oiled
- Wellied
- Wired to the moon
- With the fairies
- Wrecked
- Wrote off
Did I miss any? Email me and let me know!
