| 单词 |
tipsify |
| 释义 |
tipsify, v.|ˈtɪpsɪfaɪ|
[f. tipsy + -fy.]
trans. To make tipsy; to intoxicate (in quot. 1837 slightly or partially). Hence tipsifiˈcation, intoxication; ˈtipsifiˌcator, ˈtipsifier, one who tipsifies (in quots., one who gets drunk, a tippler or toper); ˈtipsified ppl. a., made tipsy, (slightly) intoxicated. (All more or less nonce-wds.)
1830Fraser's Mag. I. 740 In all matters of coenic revelry and tipsified jollification. 1837Carlyle Misc., Mirabeau (1857) IV. 95 The man was but tipsified when he went; happily, when he returned, which was very late, he was drunk. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiii, Poor Raff is tipsifying himself with spirits. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 27 July, The sharp New England mind..has long since endorsed the locution ‘as tight as a peep’ to express an utter state of tipsification. 1873Leland Egyptian Sketch-Bk. 288 The last thing attended to by the tipsificators. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls iv, Our first man was a tipsifier, and the last was a rogue. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 169 A certain air of tipsified simplicity and good-fellowship. |
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