English Explanatory Dictionary

drunk as a skunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Highly inebriated.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

drunk as a skunk

Etymology

Although skunk might refer to the aroma of some alcoholic beverage, the rhyme seems to have motivated this idiom.

Synonyms

drunk as a cunt drunk as a fiddler drunk as a fiddler's bitch drunk as a lord drunk as a piper drunk as a sow drunk as a wheelbarrow drunk as an owl drunk as Chloe drunk as David's sow full as a goog pissed as a fart pissed as a newt tight as a tick
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