blotto
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From blot + -o. The verb sense “to be annihilated or destroyed” may be related to blot out.
Base: blot
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: more blotto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blotto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blottos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blottoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blottos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blottoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blottoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blottoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blottoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (Very) drunk or intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Dear old Squiffy was always rather a lad for the wassail-bowl. When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.
I drank a lot of wine – and afterwards, at Les Vikings, Akvavit – and was completely blotto (well, not completely, but enough to talk a lot and get the Hungarian talking and not be bored).
I stayed home for a couple days and got blotto four times. I did the usual bad drunk routine; cried a lot, moaned about my life.
gloss: A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.
His [Joe Jonsson's] drawings and rollicking humor about burglars, cardsharps, turf punters, jockeys and "blottos" (drunks) were a continuation in theme of the work of the early Bulletin artists Alf Vincent and Ambrose Dyson.
These borderlines are outnumbered more than five to one by the "blottos," drivers with BACs [blood alcohol concentrations] of 0.20 and higher. Put this 0.08 idea to the commonsense test: We're going to improve highway safety with a program aimed at a few "borderlines," while five times as many "blottos" continue their boozy ways? It'll never work.
Behind the lighted displays of bottles, the smudged wall mirror reflected hazy red pool table lights and the words Dino's: Getting Vegas Drunk Since 1962 in large white letters on a back wall. His old man had groused when they had first painted that sign. "Makes the place sound like a bunch of blottos."
gloss: An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
pos: noun
examples: The authors' most penetrating work seems to me, their contribution along the lines of the interview with the child, the use of sketches, blottoes, etc. "Draw a picture of this house. Who lives there? Show where the different members sleep" […]
The pictures on these cards which I am going to show you are such ink-blot pictures. They do not really represent anything. They are accidental blottos. All you have to do is to look at them one by one and tell me what they might be, what they could represent for you.
The ink splattered blottoes on the wall. The door closed precipitately. Screaming, "Told those monkeys to stay out unless I said come in!" The door opened and the jet brunette with the perfect profile minced in wearing a look of critical suffering.
One can object to a few of the crafts included—paper punch pictures, blottos and metal foil sculpture—because they are more likely to lead to "tricks" than to art.
She feels that whatever they absorb of the basic fundamentals of art will be valuable in later life. Even a knowledge of balanced colors may be a help later in decorating a home. She starts them simply with ordinary "blottos." "Then they learn perspective, and the various techniques. I try to take them through as many as possible; water color, crayons, charcoal, tempera, and india ink, casein—everything but oil."
Under the topic of Color, creative writing students will create blottos, using the primary colors; will listen for "color" in a familiar song and then write their own words; and, with the help of resource people from Mesabi Community College, will attempt to show color through facial expression […]
gloss: To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: An entire bottle would have blottoed me. I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager.
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.
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.
gloss: To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: [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.
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.
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.
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.
Derived words: blottoing
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