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Drunk vs Parro - What's the difference?

drunk | parro |

As adjectives the difference between drunk and parro

is that drunk is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages while parro is (slang|colloquial|australia) very drunk, intoxicated.

As a noun drunk

is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

As a verb drunk

is .

drunk

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.
    • Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
  • * Macaulay
    • drunk with recent prosperity
  • Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
    • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

    Synonyms

    * (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tank

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
  • * 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
    • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
  • A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
  • * 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
    • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
  • A drunken state.
  • * 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
    • 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 drunk

    Synonyms

    * (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Southern US) (drink)
    • English irregular past participles

    parro

    English

    Adjective

  • (slang, colloquial, Australia) Very drunk, intoxicated.
    • I was so parro that I pissed in the sink.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title="**Justice for Martin Bryant....Public Inquiry needed on Prt Arthur**" , group=soc.culture.australian , author=Damian Parish , date=April 25 , year=2000 , passage=I've made better web pages when I've been parro . citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Asian drivers , group=aus.cars , author=Dan , date=August 19 , year=2003 , passage=Just like being completely parro but without touching any booze. citation