Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make tipsy; fuddle; inebriate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To make tipsy.
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- verb colloquial, transitive To make
tipsy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I have been weeping, toad, with my head on the pin-cushion, and the maid trying to tipsify me with brandy."
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her, high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexters granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitts, 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 salvolatile.
I. Chiswick Mall 1917
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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 salvolatile.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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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 salvolatile.
Vanity Fair 2006
yarb commented on the word tipsify
...she was in such a passion of tears that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with salvolatile.
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch. 1
November 15, 2008