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tipsy

RELATED WORD :

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Adjective
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tip=sy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective tipsy has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

tipsya. [Akin to tipple; cf. Prov. G. tips drunkenness, betipst drunk, tipsy. See Tipple.].
  •  Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.  [1913 Webster]
    "Midnight shout and revelry,
    Tipsy dance and jollity.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tipsy, adj. (tipsier, tipsiest)
1 slightly intoxicated.
2 caused by or showing intoxication (a tipsy leer).

Idiom
tipsy-cake Brit. a sponge cake soaked in wine or spirits and served with custard.
Derivative
tipsily adv. tipsiness n.
Etymology
prob. f. TIP(2) = inclined to lean, unsteady: for -sy cf. FLIMSY, TRICKSY

THESAURUS

tipsy

addled, aslant, aslope, atilt, beery, bemused, besotted, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, blind drunk, boozy, canting, careening, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, in liquor, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, leaning, listing, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, oiled, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking, recumbent, reeling, shelving, shelvy, shikker, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, sodden, sotted, stewed, tiddly, tight, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, under the influence, unsteady

ROGET THESAURUS

tipsy

Drunkenness

N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.

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