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English
Etymology
From tips + -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)
- (informal, slang) Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
- (metonymically) Unsteady, askew.
- (cooking, informal) Containing alcohol.
tipsy apple pie
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
slightly drunk
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пийнал (bg) (pijnal)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有點醉／有点醉 (yǒudiǎn zuì), 微醉 (wēizuì, wéizuì), 微醺 (zh) (wēixūn, wéixūn)
- Danish: let beruset, letpåvirket
- Dutch: aangeschoten (nl), tipsy (nl), teut (nl)
- Esperanto: duonebria
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: huppelissa, juovuksissa (fi)
- French: éméché (fr), égayé (fr), gris (fr), pompette (fr)
- Galician: peneque (gl), tomado (gl), alegre (gl), aluspado
- German: angeheitert, beschwipst (de), betütert (de), angetrunken (de), bedudelt (de)
- Ido: ebrieta (io)
- Italian: brillo (it), alticcio (it), allegro (it), allegretto (it)
- Japanese: ほろ酔い (ja) (horoyoi)
- Kabuverdianu: fusku
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Ladin: la sentì
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: ēbriolus
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: alleunmé, souard
- Norwegian: brisen (no)
- Bokmål: pussa (no), bedugget, brisen (no)
- Persian: ملنگ (fa) (malang)
- Polish: podchmielony (pl)
- Portuguese: ligeiramente embriagado (pt), alto (pt), tocado (pt) m
- Romanian: beat (ro), amețit (ro) m, cherchelit (ro) m
- Russian: подвы́пивший (ru) (podvýpivšij)
- Scottish Gaelic: fo-mhisgeach
- Spanish: achispado (es), piripi (es), irse (es), irse al otro barrio
- Swedish: lätt berusad, dragen (sv), salongsberusad (sv)
- Tagalog: malainibay, balasing
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: п'яне́нький (pʺjanénʹkyj)
- Vietnamese: ngà ngà (vi), tàng tàng (vi)
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967