stagger with strong drink

In Gbaya, the notion of staggering drunkenly is emphasized in Isaiah 28:7 with kɔɗɔŋ-kɔɗɔŋ, an ideophone that refers to a staggering gait like that of a drunkard.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

See also staggered and stagger.

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