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Definition of squiffy in English: squiffyadjectivesquiffiest, squiffier ˈskwɪfiˈskwɪfi British informal 1Slightly drunk. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, shopping while slightly squiffy on cocktails is probably the closest any lady can get to heaven, in my opinion.
- They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy.
- It's good to see that Gandalf has his human side, and gets squiffy at a post-Oscars party.
- She last played Scotland with Dreadzone at The Arches in Glasgow, where she remembers getting rather squiffy on port and not much else.
- She'll drink a little if we go out for dinner, but never enough to get squiffy.
- Much gin was drunk, much inane rubbish and some serious stuff was discussed, and we all went home pleasantly squiffy.
- While we're of the subject of goats…… I have a friend who once got so squiffy at a party she signed up for a twelve week goat keeping course.
- I feel a bit squiffy… actually make that a lot squiffy.
- Do they mean anything, faces, Maggie would think to herself when she was a bit squiffy and had had one too many glasses of sparkly spumante.
- You'd think I'd have learned long ago not to argue with those with a slightly squiffy glint in their eye.
- I protest that this is unfair as I am slightly squiffy, but they insist.
Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin 2Askew; awry. the graphics make your eyes go squiffy Example sentencesExamples - Which was actually not a bad idea, since by the time I had done level 16, my eyes were going squiffy and I thought I could sleep some more.
- ‘It was another one of those days for Tiger: lots of good shots and one or two squiffy drives,’ said Brown.
- I read about it somewhere, they can make your brain go all squiffy.
- Whereas cocodamol are great for sending a person squiffy in the head, they're pretty useless for relieving agonising back pain.
- So we came from what was once Middlesex before the Greater London Council claimed London Boroughs that far out (forgive me if my history is a bit squiffy there.)
- Well, when I first start the treatment I get a couple of days feeling a little squiffy and disoriented.
Synonyms askew, crooked, lopsided, uneven, asymmetrical, to one side, off-centre, skewed, skew, misaligned
Derivatives adverb British informal With the huge rink on view in the background, Lord Charles, from his vantage point of the bar, would squiffily contemplate his whisky glass and demand: "Is there any ice in this place?" Example sentencesExamples - Mr D and I once squiffily scratched out an apostrophe on a sign which said 'flat's'.
- Throughout his political career, his favourite way of suggesting statesmanship has been to narrow his eyes and peer squiffily into the not-quite-middle distance.
- You catch several of the more senior academics eyeing you in a squiffily lascivious manner, and you are not averse to a little fun.
- It's good to know that there will always, always, be at least one dancefloor where the rugby club will still be stomping their feet in an extended circle and student nurses will still be squiffily sashaying along to the strains of the Grease Megamix.
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. Rhymes cliffy, iffy, jiffy, Liffey, niffy, sniffy, spiffy, whiffy Definition of squiffy in US English: squiffyadjectiveˈskwifēˈskwɪfi British informal Slightly drunk. he's squiffy from the rum Example sentencesExamples - Do they mean anything, faces, Maggie would think to herself when she was a bit squiffy and had had one too many glasses of sparkly spumante.
- You'd think I'd have learned long ago not to argue with those with a slightly squiffy glint in their eye.
- It's good to see that Gandalf has his human side, and gets squiffy at a post-Oscars party.
- While we're of the subject of goats…… I have a friend who once got so squiffy at a party she signed up for a twelve week goat keeping course.
- Much gin was drunk, much inane rubbish and some serious stuff was discussed, and we all went home pleasantly squiffy.
- She last played Scotland with Dreadzone at The Arches in Glasgow, where she remembers getting rather squiffy on port and not much else.
- I protest that this is unfair as I am slightly squiffy, but they insist.
- In fact, shopping while slightly squiffy on cocktails is probably the closest any lady can get to heaven, in my opinion.
- They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy.
- She'll drink a little if we go out for dinner, but never enough to get squiffy.
- I feel a bit squiffy… actually make that a lot squiffy.
Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
Origin Mid 19th century: of unknown origin. |