stocious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. very drunk, intoxicated Ireland,Scotland,slang
    — By contrast they have a whole flock of words to discriminate the various degrees of intoxication. Beginning with the delightful “Drink-taken,” you have half-towed, sizzled, flukaw, flutered, spifflu, langers, and stocious. The last word rhymes with atrocious and means thickly speaking drunk. Anybody who is stocious ought to be taken home before he starts fighting—unless he is already past it, which he probably is.

词形变化

more stocious comparative most stocious superlative stotious alternative stoshious alternative stotius alternative stocius alternative stoshus alternative stoshous alternative stoshius alternative stoatious alternative stoshers alternative

词源

Uncertain. The ending -ious appears to be a mock-Latinate jocular formation. Suggestions for the initial sto- or stot- include:
* Arbitrary
* From an unidentified Irish word
** David Crystal doubtfully suggests Irish stuagach "pitcher" or Irish stab "stoup".
* Jonathon Green suggests Scots stot "totter"
* Tony Thorne suggests "a dialect word meaning waterlogged or muddy" (?stodge)
Green distinguishes this word from stocious, Caribbean slang for "stylish; good-looking; arrogant", a corruption of ostentatious.
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