Definitions for drunkard

drunkard drunk·ard

Spelling: [druhng-kerd]
IPA: /ˈdrʌŋ kərd/

Drunkard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in drunkard (addknrru).

Definitions for drunkard

noun

  1. a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.

Origin of drunkard

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at drunk, -ard

Examples for drunkard

There are those who claim that he was unjust to Cooke, making him more of a drunkard than he really was.

“drunkard” was one of his favorite insults for Bush, who was public about his struggles with drinking in his younger days.

I am like the drunkard who admires a temperate life, yet can't pass a ginshop.

He couldn't have had a very good time; his father was a drunkard.

Charlie was not only a drunkard still, but the “crook” he was supposed to be.

But the moment of silence never happened; a drunkard started arguing with people and caused a small scuffle.

That was what distinguished him from the drunkard and the drug-taker.

Now and again they stepped off the pavement to leave room for some drunkard who had fallen there.

It is bad enough as it is,—a drunkard for a father, and we nothing more than beggars!

“Sure sign of a drunkard,” he returned wisely, in a similar undertone.

Word Value for drunkard
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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