sozzled

American  

[soz-uhld] / ˈsɒz əld /

adjective

Slang.

1. drunk; inebriated.

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sozzled British  

/ ˈsɒzəld /

adjective

1. an informal word for drunk

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Etymology

Origin of sozzled

First recorded in 1875–80; dialectal sozzle “confused state, sloppy person” (earlier sossle; akin to souse ¹ ) + -ed ³; cf. soused

Example Sentences

There’s no question whose side “Mank” is on, especially since Oldman invests the man with such rumpled grace, sozzled wit and bittersweet feeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020

In the imaginations of fans he lived out his days in happiness, whizzing amiably around the galaxy, or pottering about his vineyard getting gently sozzled.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2020

The Times critic Charles Isherwood, reviewing the production, which began in Chicago, at Steppenwolf Theatre, wrote that Coon “imbues the sozzled Honey with a sweet sympathy and a hint of a backbone.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

Harvey , the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1944 comedy by Mary Chase, introduces a sweet, slightly sozzled fellow whose best friend is an invisible 6-foot-tall rabbit.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2015

All I could do was to stammer and splutter like a bass viol tuning up, while I sozzled around in my chair trying to break in with something that would count.

From Cupid's Middleman by Lent, Edward B.