boozehound

English

Etymology

From booze +‎ hound.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

boozehound (plural boozehounds)

1. (informal) alcoholic, drunkard
   • 2005 August 20, “Michel Houellebecq: The sex export”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     A 47-year-old, nondescript boozehound who once programmed computers for the French government, Houellebecq is an unlikely choice as either a literary lion or sacrificial lamb.

   • 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunkard

Translations

alcoholic

• German: Schnapsdrossel (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fyllehund m, drukkenbolt m, dranker m, fyllik m

• Spanish: beberrón m, borrachín (es) m, beodo (es) m, esponja (es) f (colloquial, figurative)
• Swedish: fyllhund (sv) c