drunkard
Plural: drunkards
Noun
- A person who is habitually and excessively intoxicated by alcohol.
- a chronic drinker
- A person who is habitually drunk.
Examples
- The legendary DRUNKARD of the Scrabble club once played a perfect bingo, baffling everyone.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”). Compare German Trunkart. Compare braggart.
Synonyms
drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino, alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, suck-pint, sucker, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop
Antonyms
on the wagon, pioneer, teetotaler, teetotaller
Scrabble Score: 14
drunkard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrunkard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drunkard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary