swipey

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

swipe +‎ -y; see swipe (“inferior beer”).

Adjective[edit]

swipey (comparative more swipey, superlative most swipey)

  1. (dated, slang) Drunk; tipsy.
    • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
      "I've brought home Mr. Chuzzlewit. He ain't ill. He's only a little swipey, you know." Mr. Bailey reeled in his boots, to express intoxication.
    • 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in The Ebb-Tide:
      "Lord, I've an 'eadache on me!" said he. "I believe I was a bit swipey last night."

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