Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity!
Pafisticated - pa*fi*sti*cat*ed adj Cf pifflicated Tipsy. 1966 DARE (Qu. DD13, When a drinker is just beginning to show the effects of liquor. . she’s _______) Inf NC1, Pafisticated.
“Best test of whether someone’s too drunk: teach them ‘pafisticated’ before you bar-hop. If they can still pronounce it at the end of the night, they should be all right.”
“Pafisticated sounds like what a lot of cliche drunk fathers in movies do. Pa. Fist. Icate. Never liked those characters.”
“Happy birthday! Let’s get you pafisticated!”
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Works Cited
Cassidy, Frederic G. Chief Editor. Dictionary Of American Regional English. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Print