Ebrious

Ebrious, describes a few folk I know, including my alter-ego....

ebrious (EE-bree-uhs) adjective

1. Inclined to excessive drinking.

2. Tipsy.

[From Latin ebrius (drunk). Two cousins of this word are inebriated and sobriety.]

“One seminal figure, Thompson, was a 'dissolute, ebrious, profane, lascivious English-Dutchman'.”
Nicholas Phillipson; Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain; Cambridge University Press; 1993.

“Yet far more terrible the line that flows
From ebrious passion to supine remorse.”
Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885); The Fall of Alipius.
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -Chinese proverb

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