tipsy

English

From tip (“upset”) +‎ -s- (interconsonantal) +‎ -y (“quality”). The -s- is for euphony (sound) following a plosive. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)

slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
(metonymically) unsteady, askew

slightly drunk

Chinese:
Mandarin: 有點醉, 有点醉 (yǒudiǎnzuì), 微醉的 (wēizuìde)
Dutch: aangeschoten (nl), tipsy (nl), teut (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: huppelissa, juovuksissa (fi)
French: éméché (fr) m, égayé (fr) m, gris (fr) m, pompette (fr) m, f
German: angeheitert, beschwipst (de), betütert (de), angetrunken (de), beschwipst (de)
Ido: ebrieta (io)
Italian: brillo (it) m, brilla (it) f, alticcio m, alticcia f
Japanese: ほろ酔い (ja) (horoyoi)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: alleunmé, souard

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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