tozy-mozy

tozy-mozy

English

Adjective

tozy-mozy

1. (archaic) Drunk; intoxicated; tipsy.
   • 1895, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith - Page 109

     On the head of this we had another jug, three being cannie, after which we were both a wee tozy-mozy...

   • 1968, Cornelius Weygandt, A Century of the English Novel:

     Though a pattern of respectability, he can grow genial in his cups, or as he would say “a wee tozy-mozy."

   • 2008, Catherine Ponton Slater, Marget Pow, →ISBN, page 18:

     ...speakin about shoogly, would you believe that I've never seen more than one drunk man in Rome? and he was not exackly what you would call drunk, but just a wee thing tozy-mozy like, as Mansie would say.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunk