also: さけくせ · しゅへき
drinking habits; drunken behavior
Refers to a person's characteristic behavior when drunk, often with a negative connotation (e.g., becoming aggressive, weepy, or troublesome). Commonly used in phrases like 酒癖が悪い.
He has bad drinking habits and gets angry as soon as he's drunk.
I lost friends because of my drunken behavior.
bad drunk; nasty when drunk
Standard kanji spelling; the most common reading is さけぐせ.
Alternate reading; less common than さけぐせ.
On'yomi reading; rarely used in modern Japanese.
Compound of 酒 (sake, 'alcohol') and 癖 (kuse, 'habit'). The reading さけぐせ is a standard kun'yomi compound; しゅへき is the on'yomi reading, now rare.