A dialectal or archaic term for a state of drunkenness or a drunkard, particularly in Scottish or Northern English usage.
Scottish-English compound combining 'drunk' + 'elew' (possibly from Old English 'leow,' meaning remainder or remnant), creating a humorous term for someone left in a drunken state.
This wonderfully archaic Scottish term shows how creative people could be with insults—'drunkelew' sounds almost affectionate, like it's describing someone who's been left behind by their own drunkenness!
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