tipsify
English
Etymology
tipsy + -fy
Verb
tipsify (third-person singular simple present tipsifies, present participle tipsifying, simple past and past participle tipsified)
- (colloquial, transitive) To make tipsy.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- ... as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt's, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal volatile
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