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cup-shotten

cup-shotten adjective: intoxicated; drunk.

Adjective

cup-shotten (comparative more cup-shotten, superlative most cup-shotten)

  1. (obsolete) Intoxicated; drunk.
    • In which verses, the poet if I be not deceived, doth covertly and by the way imply a difference betweene liberall drinking of wine, or being somewhat cup-shotten, and drunkennesse indeed: for to sing, to laugh, and to daunce, be ordinarie matters, incident to those who have taken their liquor well...1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch
    Synonyms:
    drunk

Synonyms of cup-shotten

Forms of cup-shotten

comparativemore cup-shotten
superlativemost cup-shotten
alternative formcupshotten

Origin of cup-shotten

England, circa 1330

Questions about cup-shotten

What does cup-shotten mean?
Cup-shotten means intoxicated; drunk.
What part of speech is cup-shotten?
Cup-shotten is an adjective.

Words near cup-shotten in the dictionary

  1. cup-bearers
  2. cup-rose
  3. cup-roses
  4. cup-shaped
  5. cup-shot
  6. cup-shotten
  7. cup-tied
  8. cup-tosser
  9. cup-tossers
  10. Cupa
  11. cupalite

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