adjective General Slang

mortal

· adjective · geordie

Absolutely steaming drunk.

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Hammered. Paralytic. Can't-find-your-own-front-door drunk. The Geordie default for a proper night out — past tipsy, past merry, all the way to mortal. Geordie Shore did its best to export the word nationally.

“She was absolutely mortal by half nine, had to put her in a taxi.”
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Standard English sense — relating to death, or simply a human being. Still used in serious registers ('mortal danger', 'we are all mortal') but in Geordie the drunk sense dominates daily speech.

“The injury wasn't mortal, thank god.”
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mortal In A Sentence

She was absolutely mortal by half nine, had to put her in a taxi.
The injury wasn't mortal, thank god.

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