muntered
English
Etymology
Related to munter (“person often impaired by alcohol”)
Adjective
muntered
- (UK, slang) Drunk.
- 2004, Nick Barham, Dis/connected: Why Our Kids are Turning Their Backs on Everything We Thought We Knew, Vintage:
- 'Got a pic of you muntered you feel you need to share with the world? Text it to us from a picture messaging phone.' Online, Mixmag directs you to the Gurner's Gallery, where hundreds of photos of huge pupils […]
- 2009 October 22, Susie Dent, What Made The Crocodile Cry?: 101 questions about the English language, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 3:
- […] Today, you can be muntered, mullered, […]
- 2015 May 19, Abigail Tarttelin, Flick: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 77:
- It was sad but as Troy said to me once while muntered, at least she went out with a bang.
Further reading
- Tony Thorne (2014 February 27) Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 299: “muntered adj British drunk. An item of student slang in use in London and elsewhere since around 2000.”
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