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peloothered

peloothered adjective: drunk, thoroughly intoxicated.

Adjective

peloothered

  1. (informal, rare) Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
    • ‘[…] How did it happen at all?’
      ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 197
    • By this time Jimmy was working himself into such a state—he'd already told me “I'm peloothered, lurve, bleeding peloothered”—that I felt he'd be unable to proceed.1988, Frederick Exley, Last Notes from Home, →ISBN

Synonyms of peloothered

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Origin of peloothered

Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Possibly from Hiberno-English as a humorous dialectal corruption of blootered or polluted.

Questions about peloothered

What does peloothered mean?
Peloothered means drunk, thoroughly intoxicated.
What part of speech is peloothered?
Peloothered is an adjective.

Words near peloothered in the dictionary

  1. pelomedusids
  2. pelomedusoid
  3. pelomedusoids
  4. pelomyxid
  5. pelomyxids
  6. peloothered
  7. pelophilous
  8. Pelopid
  9. Pelopids
  10. pelopium
  11. Peloponnese

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