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tipsy

[ tip-see ]

adjective

, tip·si·er, tip·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.


tipsy

/ ˈtɪpsɪ /

adjective

  1. slightly drunk
  2. slightly tilted or tipped; askew


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtipsily, adverb
  • ˈtipsiness, noun

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Other Words From

  • tipsi·ly adverb
  • tipsi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tipsy1

1570–80; tip 2 or obsolete tip strong drink (perhaps back formation from tipple 1 ) + -sy. Compare obsolete bumpsy in same sense

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tipsy1

C16: from tip ²

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Example Sentences

A crowded train full of tipsy, shouting baseball fans is another great opportunity to evaluate the long-term comfort of the soft, synthetic leather ear cups.

They’re also resistant to dust, drops, and your tipsy cousins knocking them off the deck at a barbecue.

Speaking to The Post, Moreno recalled a “fabulous” night full of applause, tears and a warm backstage embrace from a tipsy Joan Crawford.

It emitted the sound over and over, like a tipsy reveler at a New Year’s Eve party.

Not in the hands of O’Donnell, a kind of Oscar Wilde gone tipsy, who drops some Irish whimsy into the harsh reality of Victorian England.

A rush of water spills from above, but not from the bottle of an absent-minded commuter or tipsy traveler.

The Schiaparelli Spring/Summer 2014 collection can be seen as something of a tipsy take on couture.

As soon as those words leave my mouth, I turn around and am staring at a tipsy-looking Fassbender.

Harry, clearly a little tipsy, was photographed dancing in the street.

You might only get tipsy, but how much fun would it be if any of this actually happened?

His thoughts ran on things past; he had spoken unkindly of Sally, behind her back; he had been tipsy—Ah!

Says one of the characters, referring to the importunities of a tipsy vagrant, “Give him half-a-crown!”

He led to a little low public-house, whence tipsy songs were booming, and tapped at a side door three times.

Everybody wears blue ribbon here, but I don't, because I don't want to get tipsy anyhow.

Not very, the witness replied, not so tipsy but that she could walk and talk, but she had had quite enough.

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