How is it that ‘hammered’ can mean drunk, but so can ‘gazeboed’, ‘carparked’ and ‘pyjamaed’? Inspired by a viral joke, two German linguists break it down.
The researchers, led by Professor Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer of Chemnitz University, have discovered that virtually any noun can be transformed into a drunkonym .
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