fou

Adjective

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

1. (Scotland) Drunk.
   • Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110

   Synonyms:

   Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored