drunken words are sober thoughts
Alternative form of drunk words are sober thoughts.
drunken
/ˈdɹʌŋkən/
adj 5verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
crude, deep, due
VERB + DRUNKEN
arrested, beat, fights, pounds, punished, results, rid, wedding
DRUNKEN + NOUN
awoke, bard's, celebrity, cole, father, gesture, husband, joy
PREP.
in, on, with, with
ADV.
brotherly, entirely, equally, oddly
Definitions
adj
1
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…]
2
Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
3
Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
a drunken display of crude exuberance
Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.
4
Saturated with liquid
5
Saturated with liquid
drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
verb
1
To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate.
Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
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Idioms & Phrases
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What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
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I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward
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a drunken display of crude exuberance
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Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
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The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
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Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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