Drunk vs Hangover - What's the difference?
drunk | hangover |
In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
* Macaulay
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
A drunken state.
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
Illness caused by a previous bout of alcohol drinking.
An unpleasant relic left from prior events.
* 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
As nouns the difference between drunk and hangover
is that drunk is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated while hangover is illness caused by a previous bout of alcohol drinking.As an adjective drunk
is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.As a verb drunk
is .drunk
English
Adjective
(er)- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tankNoun
(en noun)- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
Derived terms
* cheap drunk * expensive drunk * good drunkSynonyms
* (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see alsohangover
English
Alternative forms
* hang-overNoun
(en noun)- I really enjoyed yesterday’s party, but now I have the biggest hangover — I’ll not be doing that again any time soon.
- While they deny the logic of history and geography, neither Gibraltar nor the Falklands will ever be truly "safe". One day these hangovers will somehow merge into their hinterlands and cease to be grit in the shoe of international relations. This day will be hastened if world governments take action to end tax havens.