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the state where confidence and regret share the same expensive bar tab
means Drunk, alcohol-soaked, or marked by heavy drinking — whether describing a person, a brunch, or a dessert soaked in liquor.
from Built on "booze," a word that's been slurring around English since at least the 16th century, when it meant to drink to excess. "Booze" likely came from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German "busen," meaning to drink heavily or carouse. The "-y" suffix did its usual job of turning the noun into a descriptor, giving us a word that drips with the very substance it names.
- word origin
- From Middle Dutch buse, a drinking vessel
- legal cake
- Rum cake can legally contain measurable alcohol after baking
- brunch boom
- Bottomless mimosas turned weekend mornings into legal day-drinking
- chemistry
- Alcohol dissolves both flavor and your better judgment
hemingway's the floridita — havana bar where hemingway drank daiquiris daily, 1930s-1950s
oktoberfest munich — annual beer festival in bavaria since 1810, 6+ million liters consumed
new orleans bourbon street — french quarter street with 24-hour bar culture, founded 1718