Tipsy

Definition: Tipsy

Tipsy

Adjective

1. Slang for `drunk'.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tipsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Tipsy \Tip"sy\, adjective. [Comparative Tipsier; superlative Tipsiest.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Tipsy

Drunkenness

Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.

Crosswords: Tipsy

Dutch (tipsy).

Two Tipsy Fellows in a Boat (1898)

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Books

• The Tipsy Witch and Other Fairy Tales. (reference)

• Tipsy Marsh: The Story of a Woman (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tipsy Remix Party (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Expressions using "tipsy": get tipsy ♦ make tipsy ♦ tipsy cake ♦ tipsy lurch. Additional references.

Beginning with "tipsy": tipsy-cake.

Ending with "tipsy": half-tipsy.

Afrikaans

beneweld, aangeskote (winged, wounded). (various references)

Albanian

i paqëndrueshëm (changeable, cranky, fickle, fluent, fluid, inconsequential, inconstant, infirm, labile, mutable, non-persistent, protean, rocky, soft, tottering, unequable, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, waggly, wayward). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخمور (blind drunk, boozy, drunken, in one's cups, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, well oiled), ‏سكران (boozer, boozy, canned, drunk, drunken, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tanked), ‏ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tight, well oiled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

полупиян (half seas over, half-drunk, screwed), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, half seas over, lit, mellow, merry, muzzy, rocky, sprung, vinous). (various references)

Czech

podnapilý (half seas over, jolly, slightly drunk), opilý (crapulous, drunk, drunken, fuddled, high, inebriated, intoxicated, sottish, soused). (various references)

Dutch

roezig, aangeschoten (winged, wounded). (various references)

Esperanto

ebrieta, duonebria. (various references)

Farsi 

مست (Drunk, Drunken, Groggy, Sot, Souse), لول شدن , لول , تلوتلوخور. (various references)

Finnish

tuiterissa (tiddly), päihtynyt (drunk, intoxicated, tight). (various references)

French

pompette (tiddly), gris. (various references)

Frisian

oansketten (winged, wounded). (various references)

German

angeheitert (fresh, happy, jolly, light-headed, mellow, merry, pixilated, tipsily). (various references)

Greek 

μεθυσμένοσ ελαφρά, μεθυσμένοσ λίγο, ζαλισμένοσ (dazed, dizzy, giddy, muzzy, vertiginous, woozy). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוכר (drunk, intoxicated), שתוי (drunk, half seas over, inebrite, intoxicated, sodden), ב�'לופין. (various references)

Hungarian

ittas (boiled, bosky, drunken, groggy, in one's cups, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, vinous), becsípett (beery, bibulous, groggy, half-seas over, have had a glass too many, have had a glass too much, pixilated, plastered, spiffed, tiddley, tiddly). (various references)

Indonesian

mabuk (drunk, drunker, trance). (various references)

Italian

brillo (drunk, intoxicated, squiffy, tight), alticcio (squiffy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"��"い . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なまよい. (various references)

Manx

meshtal (vinous). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipsytay.(various references)

Portuguese

tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotard, dotty, gaby, giddy, light-headed, moony, spellbound), tocado, vacilante (faltering, fitful, flickering, floating, limp, rickety, shaky, shilly-shally, trembling, vacillating, wavering, wobbly, wonky), embriagado (bosky, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, lushed, pickled, plastered), bêbado (alcoholic, bacchic, bibber, bloat, boozer, drunk, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, intoxicated, light-headed, pissed, screwed, smashed, tippler, toper), avinhado (vinous, winy), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

pilit, fãcut (done, given, made, on, packed, recherche), cherchelit (boozy, elevated, fuddled, in liquor, jolly, mixed, moony, on the fuddle, queer, the worse for liquor), beat (befuddled, boozy, cock eyed, drunk, drunken, elevated, groggy, in drink, in one's cups, in wine, inebriate, intoxicated, muzzy, on the fuddle, pickled, pie-eyed, queer, screwed, sottish, squiffed, tight), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, wild), aghesmuit (boozy, bosky, fuddled). (various references)

Russian 

подвыпивший (beery, elevated, exhilarated, half seas over, half-seas-over, jolly, mellow, merry, screwed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pripit (mellow). (various references)

Spanish

achispado (glazed, screwed). (various references)

Swedish

drucken (drunk, drunken, groggy, inbriate, intoxicated), berusad (bagged, besotted, canned, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, intoxicated, out, pixilated, sloshed, sodden, well oiled). (various references)

Thai

เมา (drunk, get a can on, ramped, rat-arsed, sloshed, sottish, sozzled, spaced-out, tie one on). (various references)

Turkish

titrek (doddering, doddery, faltering, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, trembling, tremulous, wavering, wavy, wobbly), sallanan (pendulous, rocking, rocky, shaking, swinging, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), kafası dumanlı (fuddled, hazy, in the wind, shot, sloshed, under the weather), içkili (boozed, soused, stiff, wet), çakırkeyif (fuddled, halfseas-over, happy, hazy, jolly, oiled, on, screwed, shot, somewhat drunk, squiffy, tiddly). (various references)

Ukrainian

напідпитку (beery, capernoited, muzzy, oiled, pye-eyed, up the pole, well oiled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ng� ng� say (glorious, hazy), chếnh choáng. (various references)

madidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words containing "tipsy": antipsychotic, antipsychotics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tipsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ipsy, tapay, tesy, Tilsey, tipay, Tiphys, tipry, tipss, Tipy, tipz, Tisio, tisp, tissy, tisy, Topsey, Topsi, topsy, tpy, typsin, typy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pits, pity, spit, tips, yips.

-2 letters: its, pis, pit, psi, sip, sit, spy, sty, tip, tis, yip.

-3 letters: is, it, pi, si, ti.

+1 letter: pigsty, stripy, typist.

+2 letters: copyist, isotopy, isotype, mistype, piosity, pyrites, stypsis, styptic, tipsily, trypsin, typiest, typists.

+3 letters: asperity, biotypes, copyists, diptycas, diptychs, dystopia, epinasty, epistasy, epistyle, glyptics, isotropy, isotypes, isotypic, mistyped, mistypes, papistry, pilosity, playlist, playsuit, porosity, priestly, ptyalins, ptyalism, pyelitis, pyritous, sapidity, snippety, sparsity, sportily, spottily, stupidly, styptics, synaptic, synoptic, tidytips, tintypes, trypsins, typhoids, typifies, yperites.