boozy

Adjective

boozy (comparative boozier, superlative booziest)

1. Intoxicated by alcohol.

   Synonyms:

   drunk

2. Inclined to consume a significant amount of alcohol.
   • Dirty Davy had brought with him his chief clerk, who was a facetious personage, and boozy, and on the confidential footing of a common rascality with his master, who, after the fashion of Harry V. in his nonage, condescended in his frolics and his cups to men of low estate […]1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

   Synonyms:

   drunk, sottish

3. Involving a large consumption of alcohol.
   • We all had hangovers after a boozy weekend in town.
   • Once the concert was over I settled back into my boozy routine, wine at home with my family, cognac in my studio when I was composing.2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245
4. Containing or cooked with alcohol.
   • For dessert, the hosts treated us to a helping of boozy apple pie.
   • You embodied that good done-in mama who gives and gives like a fountain of boozy chicken soup to a rat race of men.1971, Marge Piercy, “Burying Blues for Janis”, in To Be Of Use

   Synonyms:

   alcoholic