Associations to the word «Punch-drunk»

Wiktionary

PUNCH-DRUNK, adjective. Alternative spelling of punch drunk

Dictionary definition

PUNCH-DRUNK, adjective. Dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats