escabio

From vernacular Italian scabio, scabi (“wine”), from Ligurian scabbio and Lombard scabbi .

• IPA^(key): /esˈkabjo/, [esˈkaβjo]

escabio m (plural escabios) (Argentina, Uruguay, lunfardo, slang, colloquial)

1. booze; drink; alcoholic beverage; bottle of wine, beer, or liquor

   Synonyms: alipús, beberaje, bebida, bebida alcohólica, trago

2. booziness; a mental state of drunkenness resulting from excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages

   Synonyms: bomba, borrachera, ebriedad, embriaguez, humera, mamúa

   • En las horas de escabio y amargura, me pregunto si fue cierto tu cariño, ...y aunque busco en el hembraje no hay ninguna, que como vos me quiera como a un niño. ― When I'm hitting the bottle and feeling bitter, l wonder if your affection was undefiled, and although l search among the broads there is none who like you will love me like a child.

escabio (feminine singular escabia, masculine plural escabios, feminine plural escabias)

1. boozy, drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, smashed

   Synonyms: bebido, borracho, curado, ebrio, embriagado, mamado, piripi; see also Thesaurus:borracho

escabio

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of escabiar.

• escabiar