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Definition of tipsy in English: tipsyadjectivetipsiest, tipsier ˈtɪpsiˈtɪpsi Slightly drunk. 微醉的 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
Derivativesadverb 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.
OriginLate 16th century: from the verb tip2 + -sy. Definition of tipsy in US English: tipsyadjectiveˈtipsēˈtɪpsi Slightly drunk. 微醉的 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
OriginLate 16th century: from the verb tip + -sy. |