tipsy

English

Etymology

From tips +‎ -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

Pronunciation

enPR: tĭpʹsē, IPA^(key): /ˈtɪp.si/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪpsi

Adjective

tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)

(informal, slang) slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
- 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 41:
  I was too tipsy to protest.
(metonymically) unsteady, askew

Synonyms

(slightly drunk): buzzed, merry, squiffy; see also Thesaurus:drunk
(unsteady): off-kilter, precarious, tottering, wobbly; see also Thesaurus:askew or Thesaurus:rickety

Derived terms

tipsy cake

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), beschwipst (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
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Ladin: la sentì
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)
Westrobothnian: smosi, åränd

References

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