Is Tipsiness a Word?

The condition of being intoxicated with alcoholic liquor: crapulence, drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication.

What is the meaning of Tipsiness?

1 : unsteady, staggering, or foolish from the effects of liquor : fuddled. 2 : unsteady, askew a tipsy angle.

When did tipsy become a word?

That sense of tipping entered English by 1400, but nobody is sure how. It gave birth by the late 1500s to tipsy, meaning in danger of toppling over from a surfeit of liquor.

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