The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
(adjective) very drunk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
besotted (comparative more besotted, superlative most besotted)
infatuated
intellectually or morally blinded
intoxicated
• See also drunk
• smitten
besotted
simple past tense and past participle of besot
• obtested
Source: Wiktionary
Be*sot"ted, a.
Definition: Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott.
– Be*sot"ted*ly, adv.
– Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.
Be*sot", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Besotting.]
Definition: To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibras.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.