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vinolent

PRONUNCIATION:

(VAI-nuh-luhnt) 

MEANING:

adjective: Drunken with wine; given to drinking wine to excess.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vinolentus (full of or drunk with wine), from vinum (wine) + -ulent (full of). Earliest documented use: 1384.

NOTES:

If a temulent person is prone to staggering, a vinolent person is prone to whining. It is the perfect adjective to describe someone who has made a few pour decisions.

USAGE:

“By half-past nine a kinder vinolent atmosphere had put to sleep the hatreds and suspicions of before dinner.”
Aldous Huxley; The Tillotson Banquet; The Century Magazine; Jan 1921.