Chumado
Drunk — with the verb chumarse for getting that way and la chuma for the state itself.
Related lesson: Ecuadorian Spanish: A Survival Guide.
Hear it in context
Llegó bien chumado a la casa, como a las cuatro.
He got home completely drunk, around four in the morning.
No manejes, ñaño, estás chumado.
Don't drive, mate, you're drunk.
Nos chumamos con canelazo y al día siguiente todo el mundo con chuchaqui.
We got drunk on canelazo and the next day everybody had a hangover.
What It Actually Means
Chumado (feminine chumada) means drunk. It comes with a full set: chumarse is to get drunk, la chuma is the drunkenness or the binge itself, and chumadito is the diminutive Ecuadorians use for the merry, harmless stage before the trouble starts. The register sits somewhere around English “sloshed” — informal, faintly comic, not clinical and not obscene.
Where It Comes From
Honestly, nobody is sure. Chuma for a drinking bout is an old Andean regionalism recorded in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, and it is often assumed to be a Quichua borrowing on the strength of the company it keeps — but unlike achachay or guambra, no source form is securely established. Treat it as Andean Spanish of disputed origin rather than a confirmed Quichua loan; anyone who tells you the etymology with confidence is guessing.
How Natives Use It
Everywhere, and about themselves as readily as about other people — me chumé feo (“I got badly drunk”) is a normal Monday-morning admission. The scale runs roughly entonado (tipsy) → chumado (drunk) → hecho leña (wrecked), and the morning after has its own word, chuchaqui. Ecuador’s drinking vocabulary is unusually well organised, which tells you something.
Common Pitfall
It does not travel. Say estoy chumado in Madrid or Mexico City and you will get a polite blank; the pan-Hispanic words are borracho and, in Spain, pedo — see estar en pedo for how differently the Southern Cone handles the same idea. Also mind the tone: chumado is affectionate about a friend and quite pointed about a stranger, especially at eight in the morning.