blotto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈblɑtoʊ/
ipa: /-ɾoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: blottos
form: blottoes
form: blottoing
form: blottoed
form: blottoed
Etymology: From blot + -o. The verb sense “to be annihilated or destroyed” may be related to blot out.
Senses: examples: text: An entire bottle would have blottoed me. I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager.
ref: 1994, Grif Stockley, Religious Conviction (Ivy Books Fiction), New York, N.Y.: Ivy Books, →ISBN, page 266:
text: Wherever distilled spirits dominate over beer or wine, this nocturnal culture emerges, and with it the kind of alcoholism that never plateaus but merely blottoes, retreating into a night of its own and sometimes remaining there for a week at a time. You witness this among Poles, Russians, Swedes and Finns, all of whom are expert blottologists.
ref: 2006 June 12, Roger Scruton, “Southern Comfort”, in New Statesman, volume 135, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58, column 3:
text: Ever since that first shag, his grades and interest in school had plummeted like a sad sack of stones. When they added alcohol and dope to that, using them until they blottoed out, doing well at school and getting a good job went out the fucking window.
ref: 2012, Albert Wendt, “Absences”, in Ancestry, Wellington: Huia Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.
examples: text: [H]is soul, spinning in centrifugal lust and fury until he sputters out through the hole in the center of him; going down like a gas bag—vault, cellar, ribs, skin, blood, tissue, mind, and heart all consumed, devoured, blottoed in final annihilation.
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Megalopolitan Maniac”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 241:
text: John Huston provides a few of the worst moments himself, or, at least, his tape editor does it for him by bumblingly patching on Huston's voice in one series of spot announcements—Jehovah himself dictating Creation to the sounds of [Toshiro] Mayuzumi's fade-in, fade-out neo-primordial slither. Even for what it is, the music is badly performed, poorly recorded, and blottoed by a veritable orgy of editing and dial diddling.
ref: 1967, Hi Fi/Stereo Review, volume 18, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 93:
text: I recently read The Destruction of Dresden. That's where my family came from more than a hundred years ago, and the entire city was blottoed during the second world war. And then I looked up the city in a current Fodor's guide, and it is—at least along the Elbe—all back the way it was before the war.
ref: 1995, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, volume 47, Washington, D.C.: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, →OCLC, page 112, column 3:
text: Although his facts were off by a measure, the Americans' two-man Gemini program was, as of late, noticeably and distressingly upstaging whatever grand spectacles [Sergei] Korolev had managed to bring about. He was getting trounced. Blottoed. Pummeled like the chump in a rigged boxing match.
ref: 2009, Jay Gallentine, “The Death and the Funeral”, in Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight), Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
Derived terms: word: blottoing
Related terms: sense: to be annihilated or destroyed
word: destroy