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adjectivetiddlier, tiddliest ˈtɪdliˈtɪdli British informal Slightly drunk. 〈非正式，主英〉微醉的 we were all a little bit tiddly 我们都稍有醉意。 Example sentencesExamples - We all got fantastically tiddly on the local brews.
- He broke out the smokes and a bottle of wine, and we spent the rest of the evening ‘apologising’ to him, watching football on French TV until we were very tiddly indeed.
- This was not the case of the person who seemed to be laughing a lot, inquiring whether that was because they were tiddly or whether they were simply in high spirits.
- I only had a Diamond White and a double Southern Comfort, but I got pretty tiddly.
- We stayed on the dance floor and I was a bit tiddly by then so didn't mind everyone seeing that my dancing had not improved over the years.
- We even managed to squeeze in a bit of a party at the end of our visit when we all went to a saki bar and got tiddly.
- We shot a lot of video that night, but these clips are from late in the evening, after much of that licorice-flavored liquor had been consumed, and we're both a mite tiddly.
- Oddly enough I found my hotel quite easily last night whilst slightly tiddly, but then got completely lost this morning.
- The next step was a moving ceremony before a fetid room of tiddly students.
- It had been a long day, the town hall graduation ceremony, lunch at a restaurant with a French name and a bottle of German wine which had made her almost tiddly.
- Slightly tiddly, I mentioned my Neil Diamond thing.
- In my day girlies had a couple of sweet sherries and went home feeling a bit tiddly and dangerous.
- I came in at 11.30, off the last bus, having been in the pub since I finished work at 4, so slightly tiddly.
- After lunch, he would arrive - often somewhat tiddly - at Tatler's offices in Hanover Square, where lately he worked from three until four each afternoon.
Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
OriginMid 19th century (as a noun denoting an alcoholic drink, particularly of spirits): perhaps from slang tiddlywink, denoting an unlicensed public house. The current sense dates from the early 20th century. adjectivetiddlier, tiddliest ˈtɪdliˈtɪdli British informal Little; tiny. 〈英，非正式〉微小的；微不足道的 一个小池子。 Example sentencesExamples - A whole cheese costs less than lots of tiddly bits but looks vastly more interesting.
- ‘You're not seriously expecting me to photograph you with that tiddly chubby carp’ she said.
- A decade on, that tiddly quarter-page diagram remains the only technical bit of the magazine.
- The pixels are sold in squares of 100 to create a tiddly icon.
- It had taken 12 years to complete, yet contained a comparatively tiddly 55,000 biographies.
Synonyms little, small-scale, compact, bijou
OriginMid 19th century: variant of colloquial tiddy, of unknown origin. adjectiveˈtɪdliˈtidlē British informal Slightly drunk. 〈非正式，主英〉微醉的 we were all a little bit tiddly 我们都稍有醉意。 Example sentencesExamples - He broke out the smokes and a bottle of wine, and we spent the rest of the evening ‘apologising’ to him, watching football on French TV until we were very tiddly indeed.
- In my day girlies had a couple of sweet sherries and went home feeling a bit tiddly and dangerous.
- We stayed on the dance floor and I was a bit tiddly by then so didn't mind everyone seeing that my dancing had not improved over the years.
- I only had a Diamond White and a double Southern Comfort, but I got pretty tiddly.
- We even managed to squeeze in a bit of a party at the end of our visit when we all went to a saki bar and got tiddly.
- This was not the case of the person who seemed to be laughing a lot, inquiring whether that was because they were tiddly or whether they were simply in high spirits.
- It had been a long day, the town hall graduation ceremony, lunch at a restaurant with a French name and a bottle of German wine which had made her almost tiddly.
- The next step was a moving ceremony before a fetid room of tiddly students.
- We shot a lot of video that night, but these clips are from late in the evening, after much of that licorice-flavored liquor had been consumed, and we're both a mite tiddly.
- We all got fantastically tiddly on the local brews.
- Oddly enough I found my hotel quite easily last night whilst slightly tiddly, but then got completely lost this morning.
- I came in at 11.30, off the last bus, having been in the pub since I finished work at 4, so slightly tiddly.
- Slightly tiddly, I mentioned my Neil Diamond thing.
- After lunch, he would arrive - often somewhat tiddly - at Tatler's offices in Hanover Square, where lately he worked from three until four each afternoon.
Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
OriginMid 19th century (as a noun denoting an alcoholic drink, particularly of spirits): perhaps from slang tiddlywink, denoting an unlicensed public house. The current sense dates from the early 20th century. adjectiveˈtɪdliˈtidlē British informal Little; tiny. 〈英，非正式〉微小的；微不足道的 一个小池子。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘You're not seriously expecting me to photograph you with that tiddly chubby carp’ she said.
- A whole cheese costs less than lots of tiddly bits but looks vastly more interesting.
- It had taken 12 years to complete, yet contained a comparatively tiddly 55,000 biographies.
- A decade on, that tiddly quarter-page diagram remains the only technical bit of the magazine.
- The pixels are sold in squares of 100 to create a tiddly icon.
Synonyms little, small-scale, compact, bijou
OriginMid 19th century: variant of colloquial tiddy, of unknown origin. |