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tipsy Definition

tipsy (tip)

adjective -·sier, -·si·est

  1. that tips easily; not steady; shaky
  2. crooked; awry
  3. somewhat drunk; intoxicated enough to be somewhat unsteady, fuddled, etc.

tipsy Related Forms

tip·sily (-si lē) adverb tip·si·ness noun

tipsy* Synonyms

tipsy*

modif.

intoxicated, inebriated, tight*; see drunk. See syn. study at drunk.

tipsy Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • get: Next came Missing, with a scary lady bouncer but cheap doubles and to be honest I was starting to get a bit tipsy!
  • feel: Went off to the pub at lunchtime and felt a bit tipsy!

Used with adjective complement

  • get: He heads to the park with SJ where they get tipsy.
  • become: For at the ordinary, calling for Rhenish wine and drinking of it deep, he soon became unutterably tipsy.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: Rum ' n ' Raisin - A tipple of rum combined with the juiciest raisins gives a lovely slightly tipsy ice cream.
  • quite: Therefore you can get quite tipsy on a fiver!
  • little: Feeling a little tipsy from the excess of cheap beer, I decided on a change of scenery.
  • too: It is vary rare that there is anyone who goes too far and is too tipsy.
  • very: Timmy I am a lightweight so I get very tipsy on 1 glass of wine!
  • decidedly: The most melancholy spectacle of all to my mind was, that the bridegroom was decidedly tipsy.

Modifies a noun

  • pirate: Johnny Depp is brilliant as the tipsy Pirate, while Orlando Bloom puts on a strong performance thats really made a name for himself.
  • teenager: The roof now leaks; piles of rubbish left by tipsy teenagers sit in pools of water.
  • man: What use was it talking to a tipsy man?

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