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have a snootful

have a snootful verb: to be drunk.

Verb

have a snootful (third-person singular simple present has a snootful, present participle having a snootful, simple past and past participle had a snootful)

  1. (idiomatic) To be drunk.
    • Billy usually didn’t drink much, because the war had ruined his stomach, but he certainly had a snootful now, and he was being unfaithful to his wife Valencia for the first and only time.1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000...
    • “It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,” he added, “men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’”2002 November 20th, Amanda Hesser, “Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Nov 2011

Forms of have a snootful

third-person singular presenthas a snootful
present participlehaving a snootful
past participlehad a snootful
pasthad a snootful

Questions about have a snootful

What does have a snootful mean?
Have a snootful means to be drunk.
What part of speech is have a snootful?
Have a snootful is a verb.
What is the past tense of have a snootful?
The past tense of have a snootful is had a snootful.

Words near have a snootful in the dictionary

  1. have a screw loose
  2. have a seat
  3. have a shit
  4. have a short memory
  5. have a sixpenny bit up one's backside
  6. have a snootful
  7. have a stab
  8. have a tantrum
  9. have a thick head
  10. have a thin time of it
  11. have a thing

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