adjective
General Slang
Zozzled
/ˈzɒz.əld/ · adjective · slang
Flapper slang for plastered, all buzz and no balance.
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Definitions
1
Drunk, especially the giddy, slurring, can't-walk-straight kind.
“She was so zozzled she tried to dance the Charleston on the table.”
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2
Of an event or night, sodden with liquor.
“It was a zozzled little gathering by the time the cops knocked.”
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3
Loosely, giddy or addled as if drunk, used for someone acting silly.
“He's been zozzled on love all week, can't think straight.”
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Zozzled In A Sentence
Two gin rickeys and she was thoroughly zozzled.
Keep him away from the punch or he'll get zozzled.
Everybody at the juice joint was zozzled by ten o'clock.
Origin & Usage
A 1920s Prohibition-era coinage for drunkenness, listed among the period's comic synonyms in glossaries of the day and noted by H.L. Mencken's surveys of American slang. The word appears to be invented for its silly sound rather than from any older root.
Variants
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People Also Ask
What does zozzled mean?
Zozzled is 1920s slang for being drunk.
Where did zozzled come from?
It is a Prohibition-era American coinage, one of many nonsense-sounding words for intoxication popular in the Jazz Age.
Is zozzled still used?
Rarely, and mostly as a deliberate vintage flourish or in period fiction.
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