jumo

What it means

1. 1.

   A drunk; the state of being drunk. Always with coger: 'cogió un jumo' — he got hammered.

2. 2.

   The adjective is jumo or jumao — drunk. 'Tá jumo' is the most ordinary way to say it.

Examples with translations

• Cogió un jumo que no sabía ni dónde vivía.

  He got so drunk he couldn't remember where he lived.

• No maneje', tú tá jumo.

  Don't drive, you're drunk.

Where it comes from

Generally taken to be humo, 'smoke', with the aspirated pronunciation Dominican Spanish gives word-initial h in a handful of old words — the drunk as someone full of fumes. The spelling with j simply records how it is said.

Other forms

Spellings and variants:

jumao, jumeta