Glossary entry

Ukrainian term or phrase:

хмеліти

English translation:

to become intoxicated, tipsy, drunk

Added to glossary by Alexandra Tussing
Mar 1, 2004 02:53
20 yrs ago
Ukrainian term

хмеліти

Non-PRO Ukrainian to English Art/Literary Food & Drink
has to do with brewing and drinking but there's an association with the effects of drinking.

Proposed translations

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ro become intoxicated

or to become drunk, tipsy, etc.
Peer comment(s):

agree Ann Nosova
9 mins
agree Yuri Smirnov : or (if it's a drink) to get intoxicating
40 mins
agree Iryna Maslova
58 mins
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3 hrs
Ukrainian term (edited): ������

get drunk

or, and probably,closer: become tipsy (tipsy = unsteady, staggering, or foolish from the effects of liquor, Webster's)

or
get tight (tight = intoxicated, drunk, Webster's)
Peer comment(s):

agree Sergey Strakhov : перепрошую, не помітив Вашого доповнення:)
2 hrs
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+2
5 hrs
Ukrainian term (edited): ������

to become tipsy

Memories of Old Borate -
... If one became tipsy he was said to be "Tadly Odly." If a man was helped
into camp, unable to walk straight, he was "Prilled" (intoxicated). ...
www.ttrr.org/bd_text/bdpb_002.html

Good luck!
Peer comment(s):

agree Anna Levchuk (X)
1 day 13 hrs
Дякую:)
agree yuliya griffiths
3 days 6 hrs
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