half-drunk

adjective

1. being in a temporary state in which one’s physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
2. overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power; drunk with joy.
3. pertaining to or caused by intoxication or intoxicated persons.

noun

4. an intoxicated person.
5. a spree; drinking party.

verb

6. past participle and nonstandard simple past tense of drink.

adjective

1. partially intoxicated with alcohol

adjective

1. intoxicated with alcohol to the extent of losing control over normal physical and mental functions
2. overwhelmed by strong influence or emotiondrunk with joy

noun

3. a person who is drunk or drinks habitually to excess
4. informal a drinking bout

adj.

past participle of drink, used as an adjective from mid-14c. in sense “intoxicated.” In various expressions, e.g. “drunk as a lord” (1891); Chaucer has “dronke … as a Mous” (c.1386); and, from 1709, “as Drunk as a Wheelbarrow.” Medieval folklore distinguished four successive stages of drunkenness, based on the animals they made men resemble: sheep, lion, ape, sow. Drunk driver first recorded 1948. Drunk-tank “jail cell for drunkards” attested by 1912, American English. The noun meaning “drunken person” is from 1852; earlier this would have been a drunkard.