tipsy

English

Etymology

From tip (“upset”) +‎ -s- (interconsonantal) +‎ -y (“quality”). The -s- is for euphony (sound) following a plosive. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭpʹsē, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪp.si/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpsi

Adjective

tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)

1. slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
2. (metonymically) unsteady, askew

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• tipsy cake

Translations

slightly drunk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有點醉, 有点醉 (yǒudiǎnzuì), 微醉的 (wēizuìde)

• Dutch: aangeschoten (nl), tipsy (nl), teut (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: huppelissa, juovuksissa (fi)
• French: éméché (fr) m, égayé (fr) m, gris (fr) m, pompette (fr) m, f
• German: angeheitert, beschwipst (de), betütert (de), angetrunken (de), beschwipst (de)
• Ido: ebrieta (io)
• Italian: brillo (it) m, brilla (it) f, alticcio m, alticcia f
• Japanese: ほろ酔い (ja) (horoyoi)
• Kabuverdianu: fusku
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

• Norman: alleunmé, souard
• Norwegian: brisen (no)

  Bokmål: pussa (no)

• Persian: ملنگ‎ (fa) (malang)
• Polish: podchmielony (pl) m
• Portuguese: ligeiramente embriagado (pt), alto (pt) m
• Romanian: beat (ro)
• Russian: подвы́пивший (ru) (podvýpivšij)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-mhisgeach
• Spanish: achispado (es)
• Swedish: lätt berusad, dragen (sv), salongsberusad (sv)
• Tagalog: malainibay, balasing
• Vietnamese: ngà ngà (vi), tàng tàng (vi)
• Westrobothnian: smosi, åränd

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967