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–adjective, -si·er, -si·est.

1.	slightly intoxicated or drunk.

2.	characterized by or due to intoxication: a tipsy lurch.

3.	tipping, unsteady, or tilted, as if from intoxication.

[Origin: 1570–80; tip² or obs. tip strong drink (perh. back formation from tipple¹) + -sy. Compare obs. bumpsy in same sense

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—Related forms

tip·si·ly, adverb

tip·si·ness, noun

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tip·sy Audio Help (tĭp'sē) Pronunciation Key
adj. tip·si·er, tip·si·est

Slightly intoxicated.
Unsteady or crooked.

[From tip².]

tip'si·ly adv., tip'si·ness n.

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tipsy

1577, from tip (v.1); later associated with tipple. Tipsy-cake (1806) was cake saturated with wine or liquor.

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tipsy
adjective
1.	slightly intoxicated [syn: potty]
2.	unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated; "a tipsy boat"

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tipsy [ˈtipsi] adjective

slightly drunk

Arabic:	سَكْران قَليلا
Chinese (Simplified):	微醉的
Chinese (Traditional):	微醉的
Czech:	stříknutý
Danish:	bedugget
Dutch:	aangeschoten
Estonian:	nokastanud
Finnish:	hiprakassa
French:	éméché
German:	beschwipst
Greek:	ελαφρά μεθυσμένος
Hungarian:	becsípett
Icelandic:	hífaður, kenndur
Indonesian:	agak mabuk
Italian:	brillo

Japanese:	ほろ酔いの
Korean:	얼근히 취한
Latvian:	iereibis
Lithuanian:	įkaušęs
Norwegian:	pussa, lett beruset
Polish:	wstawiony
Portuguese (Brazil):	bêbado
Portuguese (Portugal):	bêbado
Romanian:	cherchelit
Russian:	подвыпивший
Slovak:	podnapitý
Slovenian:	okajen
Spanish:	bebido, (estar) con el puntillo
Swedish:	lätt berusad
Turkish:	hafifçe sarhoş, çakırkeyf

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Tipsy

Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tippling.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See Tip a point, and cf. Tipsy.] To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. --Macaulay.

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