tipsinessn.
/ˈtɪpsɪnɪs/ The state or condition of being tipsy; a partial degree of intoxication; also figurative.
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tipsiness1598
titubancy1676
tightness1861
tipsification1864
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ebbriachezza, dronkennes, tipsines.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. vii Partly out of tipsiness, and partly out of consternation of mind.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 249 Firmly set upon his legs on that neutral ground which lies between the confines of perfect sobriety and slight tipsiness.
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in Fraser's Mag. June 699 No tipsiness can be more dead to all appeals than that which comes from fitful draughts of sleep on a railway journey by night.
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n.1598- to watch it
- to watch on
- to watch one's back
- to watch one's p's and q's
- to watch one's step
- to watch out
- to watch over
- to watch someone's smoke
- to watch the birdie
- tobacco house
- tobacco housing
- tobacco lord
- tobacco mosaic virus
- tobacco paper
- tobacco press
- tobacco road
- tobacco roll
- tobacco shed
- tobacco streak
- tobacco swiver
- tobacco tin
- tobacco tongs
- tobacco vertigo
- tobacco worm
- tobacco-abusing