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2017-10-23, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Looking for a word
If someone who can eat anything they like is said to be (or have) a hollow leg, and if someone who refuses to drink alcoholic beverages is a teetotaler, what do you call someone who can drink anything they like and only be minimally effected? I know there's a word for it, but I haven't been able to figure it out for the past 2 days.
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2017-10-23, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think heavyweight, as opposed to a lightweight (who gets drunk very fast on not much)?
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2017-10-23, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Looking for a word
Originally Posted by NRSASD
…what do you call someone who can drink anything they like and only be minimally effected?
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2017-10-23, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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A Liar, probably. Some people can hold their drink better than others, for a variety of reasons, but theyre still going to be affected, by a hangover if nothing else.
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2017-10-23, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-24, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hollow-legs.
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2017-10-24, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, neither of this true. Body weight, how much you've eaten and drank during the day all factor how much alcohol it takes to start showing the effects. Also, not everyone gets hangovers and not everyone gets them as bad. Body chemistry is a funny thing after all. Drinking water alongside drinking alcohol also helps avoid a hangover.
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2017-10-25, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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IIRC eating or drinking water while drinking alcohol also slow absorption of alcohol or something in that line? So there's a difference between two people who drink two glass of beer in two hours, where one drink two glasses of beer straight, then another glass of beer, while the other person drink one glass of beer slowly in the time of one hour in between eating something.
Also genetic can do funny thing as well. People of Asian descent can have the alcohol flush, for example where their skin got red flush quickly after drinking alcohol because their body turn alcohol into acetadelhyde quickly. Not sure if that makes people drunk easier or faster, just example how genetic can do weird things with alcohol.You got Magic Mech in My Police Procedural!
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2017-10-25, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Alcoholic?
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2017-10-25, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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This. I've heard the term applied to drinking, and not eating as the OP suggests. In my lexicon, "he has a hollow leg" means "he drinks like it's nothing."
Another phrase I've heard is "drinks like a fish," which, while also applying to non-alcoholic drinks (or water), is frequently applied to alcohol. But that doesn't necessarily mean unaffected by drink.
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2017-10-25, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oxford alumnus? (my sister quipped that you should be given a gift certificate for a new liver upon being accepted at Oxford)
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2017-10-25, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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My headache medicine has a little "Ex" inscribed on the pill. It's not a brand name; it's an indicator that it works inside an Anti-Magic Field.
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2017-10-25, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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something tells me that this is not true either.
else you are saying that somebody out there in the world is totally able to drink like thousands of gallons of moonshine and come out having no effect at all from intoxication
{scrubbed} One cannot just endlessly drink alcoholic beverages and not have any detrimental effects.Last edited by Roland St. Jude; 2017-10-25 at 03:55 PM.
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2017-10-25, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've only heard hollow legs in reference to eating, specifically someone who's skinny but can eat a lot - i.e. that's where they can pack the food in. I guess it could be a regional variation?
I can't think I've heard of that, but cast-iron stomach means someone who can eat gnarly food without it affecting them and I think I've heard that used for heavy drinking too. "Having a cast-iron liver" makes sense as something along those lines.Allergy advice: posts may contain traces of sarcasm
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2017-10-25, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-25, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Straight up immunity doesn't exist, but people who can shrug off a lot before visible effects come up* absolutely exist. Some of it is size, some of it is habits (e.g. tending to drink on a full stomach, alternating with water), and a lot of it quirks of biochemistry regarding variable concentrations of various enzymes.
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2017-10-25, 09:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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minimally affected =/= not have any detrimental effect. It's just similar to how some people can eat more than other people, like what the OP mention. Also, before more people complain, "minimally affected" here is just english figure of speech. Or are people also lying when they say they can eat more food than other people without feeling bloated or full, as in the equivalent thing mentioned in the OP?
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2017-10-26, 03:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Razade; 2017-10-26 at 03:32 AM.
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2017-10-26, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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A braggard and a drunk.
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2017-10-27, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hmmm... After a bit of research, I think heavyweight or hollow leg are the closest words to what I'm looking for, but I coulda sworn there's a more precise word. Turns out hollow leg means you can eat copious amounts of food or drink tons of alcohol and not be affected. Drinking like a fish or holding one's liquor are both good phrases, but I thought there was one word that sums that up. Ah well. Thanks to everyone who's helped out so far!
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2017-11-15, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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German has a word for it: trinkfest.
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2017-11-15, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Chalk me up as another who's only ever heard hollow legs in relation to alcohol.
It's funny how we have dozens of synonyms for lightweight but hardly any opposites. The best (and only) ones I can think of are X has a liver of steel and X can hold their drink - neither of which are adjectives.Lydia Seaspray by Oneris!
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2017-11-15, 06:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Sot? Bulletproof liver? Professional drinker?
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2017-11-16, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's more or less obsolete now, but they used to be called lushes.
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2017-11-16, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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