Word of the day

I bought myself a Forgotten English daily calendar, because I like old words, and these seem to be ones I’ve never heard of before.

Today’s word I especially like: neezled. It means, according to North of England Words, Walter Skeat (1873), a little drunk or intoxicated.

Hear, hear, say I.

3 thoughts on “Word of the day

  1. As in:

    “Dale attempted to monitor his intake, but by the end of the inaugural meeting of the Lichtenbergian Society, he was more than a bit neezled.”

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