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Definition of Punch-drunk
1. Adjective. Dazed from or as if from repeated blows. "Slaphappy with exhaustion"
Definition of Punch-drunk
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of punch drunk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punch-drunk
Literary usage of Punch-drunk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle (1900)
"To show the amount of punch drunk at a minister's ordination in New England in
1785, I will state that the eighty people attending in the morning had thirty ..."
2. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle (1900)
"... punch drunk at a minister's ordination in New England in 1785, I will state
that the eighty people attending in the morning had thirty bowls of punch ..."
3. Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and Essays by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875)
"I fear there was over-much wine- drinking, and I am sure there was a fearful
amount of punch drunk. Charley never drank to excess, never lost his ..."
4. Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and Essays by William Fearing Gill (1884)
"I fear there was over-much wine- drinking, and I am sure there was a fearful
amount of punch drunk. Charley never drank to excess, never lost his ..."
5. England, Wales and Scotland by Johann Georg Kohl (1844)
"... in his Travels, declares it to be an Indian word, signifying the elements.
The punch drunk in the Highlands, however, does not consist of many ..."
6. The Leather Pushers by Harry Charles Witwer (1921)
"... sensational victory for many's the battered and punch-drunk box fighter.
Next to the ability to knock a man kickin' with either hand and the heart to ..."
7. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"... of the beauty of Quadroons, and the delights of an iced bowl of artfully
compounded rum punch, drunk amidst the cooling breezes of a tropical evening, ..."
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