If you fancy someone, you feel attracted to them, especially in a sexual way. [British, informal] Synonyms: be attracted to, find attractive, desire, lust after More Synonyms of fancy. 5. exclamation.
Booze. One of the most well-known and widespread nicknames for alcohol. The term has been discovered in use in England as early as the 14th century and is used today in all corners of the globe. Sometimes refers to heavy drinking but can be used as a term for alcohol in any context.
Casual drinkers. Also known as social drinkers, casual drinkers are people who occasionally drink alcohol. They usually drink responsibly, which means they don't get drunk or black out regularly. Problem Drinkers.
Our favourites in the Independent office include 'symbelwlonc' – one of the earliest recorded words for 'drunk' in Old English – as well as 'splifficated' (1906), 'whiffled' (1927), 'pot-shotten' (1629), 'fox-drunk' (1592) and 'in one's cups' (1611).
A few wine slang terms to name wine are vino, glogg, and, for fans of the show Community, no-no juice. Whatever name you choose, a wine, by any other name, still tastes great.
Hundreds of years ago, "bourgeois" meant "middle class," but today the word and its slangy clipped form, "bougie," can mean something more negative: fancy, pretentious, and so on.
