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2024-02-29 | businesslive.co.za

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Liquor’s latest lexicon

Linguists have discovered that in English any noun can be transformed into a synonym for intoxication, or “drunkonym”, by adding the “-ed” suffix. Prof Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, of Chemitz University of Technology in Germany, provided examples such as “trolleyed”, “hammered”, “wellied” and ­“steampigged”. She put it down to Britain’s drinking habits and “absurdist sense of humour”.