tipsy
/ˈtɪp.si/
tipsy adjective: slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
Adjective
tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)
- Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
- A popular conception has fresh air bowling tipsy men over when they come into contact with it.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 109
- I was too tipsy to protest.2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 41
- Synonyms:
- buzzed
- Unsteady, askew.
- Synonyms:
- off-kilter
- Containing alcohol.
- tipsy apple pie
tipsy meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit
tipsy in Urdu
- ہلکے نشے میں, سبک سر
tipsy in Malayalam
- കുടിച്ചുമത്തായ, ഉന്മത്തനായ, ആടിയാടിനടക്കുന്ന
tipsy in Kannada
- ಕುಡಿದ, ತೂರಾಡುವ
tipsy in Sanskrit
- tipsy
- प्रमत्त pramatta
More languagesFewer languages
- tipsy in Tagalog
- malainibay, balasing
- tipsy in Arabic
- سكران قليلاً sukrān qalīlan
- tipsy in Persian
- ملنگ malang
- tipsy in Thai
- เมานิดหน่อย mao nit noi
- tipsy in Vietnamese
- ngà ngà, tàng tàng
Examples of tipsy in a sentence
- He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
- Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman.
- Not tipsy, you understand, but at their best, and unguardedly appreciative of each other and us.
Synonyms of tipsy
Forms of tipsy
| comparative | tipsier |
|---|---|
| superlative | tipsiest |
Origin of tipsy
From tips + -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.
Words formed from tipsy
Phrases with tipsy
Words that rhyme with tipsy
Questions about tipsy
- What does tipsy mean?
- Tipsy means slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.
- What is tipsy in Urdu?
- Tipsy in Urdu is ہلکے نشے میں, سبک سر. See Tipsy meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is tipsy?
- Tipsy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tipsy?
- Tipsy is pronounced /ˈtɪp.si/.
Words near tipsy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tipsy (page history and authors); tipsy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tipsy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tipsy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रमत्त (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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