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cupshotten

cupshotten is the alternative form of cup-shotten.

Meaning of cup-shotten

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

Forms of cupshotten

comparativemore cupshotten
superlativemost cupshotten

Questions about cupshotten

What is cupshotten the alternative form of?
Cupshotten is the alternative form of cup-shotten.

Words near cupshotten in the dictionary

  1. cupseed
  2. cupseeds
  3. cupset
  4. cupsets
  5. cupsful
  6. cupshotten
  7. cupsona
  8. cupsonas
  9. cupster
  10. cupsters
  11. cupstone

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