drunkard
Americannoun
noun
Related Words
See inebriate.
Etymology
Origin of drunkard
Example Sentences
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“I mean every note that I play,” she told the online music journal Aquarium Drunkard in 2019.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2022
“I guess I was born in the wrong time or the wrong planet or whatever, but I’ve been — not deliberately — different for all of my life,” she told Aquarium Drunkard.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2021
George Washington had several dogs with memorable names—Sweetlips, Drunkard, Tippler, and Tipsy, to name a few—but only one dog who stole an entire ham, making Vulcan the obvious leader of the pack.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2021
“The Grateful Dead has gone very mainstream,” said Darryl Norsen, 37, a longtime fan and writer based outside Rochester, N.Y., who’s penned a Grateful Dead column for the music site Aquarium Drunkard since 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2018
Erik had been a great man in his day, a fearless reaver who could boast of having sailed with her grandsire’s grandsire, that same Dagon Greyjoy whom Dagon the Drunkard had been named for.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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