tipsy

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?