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Definition of tipsy in English: tipsyadjectivetipsiest, tipsier ˈtɪpsiˈtɪpsi Slightly drunk. Example sentencesExamples - Damien was also pleased to notice she was slightly tipsy on her feet.
- He held the glass in a slightly tipsy toast, speaking to the picture in a slightly slurred voice.
- Have the tipsy revellers in the back row of pews at midnight mass come to share the wonder of the virgin birth?
- Being slightly tipsy, he forgot to put on his white gloves at the start of the parade.
- He also knew that I'd never, ever turn up for work even slightly tipsy.
- Chinese attitudes towards alcohol have always been fairly relaxed, and to be slightly tipsy is not a disgrace.
- I'm slightly tipsy and I have chicken grease and hot piri-piri sauce running down my face.
- You may remember that I spent most of the ball slightly tipsy and at the same time I was trying to quit smoking.
- There can't have been one Christmas since 1982 that I haven't been tipsy if not out-and-out drunk.
- I was slightly tipsy as I'd had a few more glasses of that punch.
- She technically shouldn't be consuming alcohol but let's be realistic - she may get a bit tipsy at some stage.
- In the 25 years I've known her, I have only seen her drunk once and tipsy thrice.
- A slightly tipsy poet can't blame his cat for wanting to join in the fun.
- Last year I got slightly tipsy, threw up a number of times and remembered next to nothing.
- Suddenly, a slightly tipsy Alex slipped an arm around her and crushed her to him.
- A lot of very civilised, if slightly tipsy, wine tasting and cheese eating followed.
- I still haven't understood why I get tipsy in a couple of glasses of wine but I can drink gallons of other things before it makes a difference.
- All this is accompanied by a bottle of the restaurant's own champagne making us slightly tipsy and drowsy.
- I got back to the dorm half an hour later, slightly tipsy, and wanting my boyfriend's arms around me.
- He just quietly got on with his own slightly tipsy form of people-watching.
Synonyms merry, mellow, slightly drunk British informal tiddly, squiffy
Derivatives adverb ˈtɪpsɪliˈtɪpsəli This is our home now, she said, motioning tipsily at the train tracks and meaning the future. Example sentencesExamples - Thus we were ordered to tipsily navigate the darkened, traffic light-less, wreckage covered streets to our hot, powerless, and, in some cases, devastated homes.
- But it was hard to disagree with the opinion of James, from Adelaide, delivered somewhat tipsily but without the benefit of hindsight, that ‘rugby had been the winner’.
- During this period, I took to singing tipsily in Manhattan piano bars and much to my surprise strangers started praising my efforts.
- As I was tipsily wandering the streets of Melbourne on New Year's Eve, I knew that somewhere nearby one of my favourite actresses was getting married.
noun ˈtɪpsɪnəsˈtɪpsinəs Okay, maybe the tipsiness is talking right now, or maybe I was slightly delusional when he was hitting on me, but there is a point to this call. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Yes, papa,’ she slurred slightly, more in weariness than from any type of alcohol tipsiness.
- Well maybe I should take you home so you can sleep off your tipsiness.
- The man's eyes do not suggest tipsiness but intelligence and sensitivity.
- A tendency towards tipsiness, then, could well be an evolutionary hangover.
Origin Late 16th century: from the verb tip2 + -sy. Definition of tipsy in US English: tipsyadjectiveˈtipsēˈtɪpsi Slightly drunk. Example sentencesExamples - He just quietly got on with his own slightly tipsy form of people-watching.
- I got back to the dorm half an hour later, slightly tipsy, and wanting my boyfriend's arms around me.
- He also knew that I'd never, ever turn up for work even slightly tipsy.
- Chinese attitudes towards alcohol have always been fairly relaxed, and to be slightly tipsy is not a disgrace.
- Damien was also pleased to notice she was slightly tipsy on her feet.
- She technically shouldn't be consuming alcohol but let's be realistic - she may get a bit tipsy at some stage.
- Suddenly, a slightly tipsy Alex slipped an arm around her and crushed her to him.
- All this is accompanied by a bottle of the restaurant's own champagne making us slightly tipsy and drowsy.
- A lot of very civilised, if slightly tipsy, wine tasting and cheese eating followed.
- In the 25 years I've known her, I have only seen her drunk once and tipsy thrice.
- He held the glass in a slightly tipsy toast, speaking to the picture in a slightly slurred voice.
- Last year I got slightly tipsy, threw up a number of times and remembered next to nothing.
- Being slightly tipsy, he forgot to put on his white gloves at the start of the parade.
- I still haven't understood why I get tipsy in a couple of glasses of wine but I can drink gallons of other things before it makes a difference.
- There can't have been one Christmas since 1982 that I haven't been tipsy if not out-and-out drunk.
- Have the tipsy revellers in the back row of pews at midnight mass come to share the wonder of the virgin birth?
- A slightly tipsy poet can't blame his cat for wanting to join in the fun.
- I'm slightly tipsy and I have chicken grease and hot piri-piri sauce running down my face.
- You may remember that I spent most of the ball slightly tipsy and at the same time I was trying to quit smoking.
- I was slightly tipsy as I'd had a few more glasses of that punch.
Synonyms merry, mellow, slightly drunk
Origin Late 16th century: from the verb tip + -sy. |