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Definition of Tipsier
1. tipsy [adj] - See also: tipsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipsier
Literary usage of Tipsier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"And sae, my lord," — as he became tipsier he turned more frequently to the court,
which he fancied he was addressing, — "being arrived at Vo- ..."
2. The Stones of Paris in History and Letters by Benjamin Ellis Martin, Charlotte M. Martin (1899)
"... Chapelle found the lecture dry, and would listen to it only over a bottle or
two, it was Boileau who came out of the cabaret the tipsier of the pair. ..."
3. The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay (1915)
"The servants are growing tipsier downstairs, but the more afraid of the chief
functionary every time he appears, frozen into sobriety by his glance. ..."
4. Friendship's Offering by John Sartain, Lewis and Sampson, Phillips & Sampson, Phillips, Sampson & Company, E.H. Butler & Co (1854)
"... got tipsier than ever in honor of his success, and toasted the Widow Knight
so often and so heartily in her own home-brewed, that it's odds but he ..."
5. The Stones of Paris in History and Letters by Benjamin Ellis Martin, Charlotte M. Martin (1906)
"... Chapelle found the lecture dry, and would listen to it only over a bottle or
two, it was Boileau who came out of the cabaret the tipsier of the pair. ..."
6. Old Seaport Towns of the South by Mildred Cram (1917)
"... often in the presence of the exquisite Monsieur Tissier, the Beau Brummel of
New Orleans. For a long time, the story goes, Monsieur tipsier had endured ..."
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