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budgy

budgy adjective: drunk.

Adjective

budgy (comparative more budgy, superlative most budgy)

  1. (obsolete, rare, slang) Drunk.
    • Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; stopped a moment at the bar to have a last tot […] and then I heard the spring-door slap after him.
      […] So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied...1876, The Shamrock, volume 14

Forms of budgy

comparativemore budgy
superlativemost budgy

Origin of budgy

From budge + -y, from budge (“strong drink”).

Questions about budgy

What does budgy mean?
Budgy means drunk.
What part of speech is budgy?
Budgy is an adjective.

Words near budgy in the dictionary

  1. budging an inch
  2. budging the needle
  3. budging up
  4. budgrook
  5. budgrooks
  6. budgy
  7. Budha
  8. Budhism
  9. Budhist
  10. Budhists
  11. Budhram

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