Possessives

• walk: Apparent direction comes from trends that are almost as unpredictable as a drunkard's walk.

Converse of object

• become: Owl broth was given to children to prevent them from becoming drunkards in later life.

• confirm: Think of a confirmed drunkard, or a confirmed thief, or a confirmed liar.

• see: Not an oath is heard, or a drunkard seen, among them.

• reclaim: Quarrels were made up, drunkards reclaimed, adulterers converted and murderers revealed and pardoned.

• mouth: We see him change from being a chubby, loud mouthed drunkard to being a lean, mean, laconic, vengeance machine.

• have: I'm not having these boastful drunkards repairing my car.

Adjective modifier

• habitual: The Clerk: He charges you with being an habitual drunkard.

• poor: Take the case of the poor drunkard, for instance.

• old: A scruffy old drunkard comes to the hospital looking for his son.

• notorious: Her son also became a brilliant painter - unfortunately, he was also one of Montmartre's most notorious drunkards.

• violent: And then the new cook had proved to be a violent, intermittent drunkard.

• few: A few ragged drunkards stood at a distance, but were not suffered to make a noise till I had done.

Noun used with modifier

• town: Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.