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Definition of Tipsiest
1. tipsy [adj] - See also: tipsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipsiest
Literary usage of Tipsiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"... intoxicated by the romance, the raw voltage, of the evil world they were now
getting a box-scat look at, and the young women became the tipsiest of all. ..."
2. Thanksgiving: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose by Robert Haven Schauffler (1907)
"... smudgy Lily O'Brian, With the tipsiest criss-cross and reels, Flap up the long
street with her rags in the wind, And a crowd of rough boys at her heels. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... warmly making love to some laughing fruit-seller, whom he loved the more, he
said, because she dealt in natural productions. This tipsiest of painters ..."
4. California: for Health, Pleasure, and Residence: For Health, Pleasure, and by Charles Nordhoff (1873)
"... as baptism, if no proper priest were at hand; but when the Indian padre was
pointed out to me I found him to be the tipsiest man on the ground, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... whom he loved the more, he said, because she dealt in natural productions.
This tipsiest of painters ..."
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