Drownded

adj.

Heard in Dublin and Offaly

Mispronunciation of 'drowned', meaning extremely wet or saturated.

..I got bleedin drownded in that shower.

Posh English

I became thoroughly saturated in that infernal shower.

Same phrase, other counties

• Offaly

Related terms

• A wet blanketAn unresponsive woman.
• Are ya wet?A cheeky greeting, often to a group of women.
• Couldn't bate his way out of a wet paperbagA weak or ineffectual person, quite unable to assert himself. Bate means 'beat'.
• Have a head like a lump of wet turfTo be very ugly.
• He couldn't punch a hole through a wet paper bagA person lacking physical strength or force.
• Madder than a wet henIn a state of furious anger or severe agitation.